Zeljka Zorz
Researchers crack Microsoft’s Fix It for latest IE 0-day
Microsoft has announced on Friday that this month’s Patch Tuesday will include seven advisories, but unfortunately there will be no patch for the recently detected IE …
Hiding secret messages in Skype silences
A group of researchers from the Institute of Telecommunications of the Warsaw University of Technology have devised a way to send and receive messages hidden in the data …
McAfee says he used malware to spy on Belize authorities
John McAfee’s name is well-known in the information security industry, but until very recently, most of the general public didn’t know that he had long ago stopped …
Copied Android apps sold on Google Play at higher prices
App developer Root Uninstaller claims that some of his original apps for the Android platform have been copied and are currently being sold on Google Play. He offers the …
Fake “Facebook Security Team” account asks for your credentials
An account posing as that of the Facebook Security Team has been spotted sending warnings to page administrators, trying to fool them into believing that their Facebook …
California and Illinois ban employers from requesting personal passwords
When Maryland’s Division of Correction instituted a requirement for job applicants and employees undergoing recertification to hand over login credentials of their …
Conficker targets photography lovers
People who bought a Hama-manufactured slide scanner from popular German retailer chain Tchibo in the weeks leading to Christmas are being warned about taking home more than …
Fraudulent digital certificate for Google web properties used in active attacks
A fraudulent digital certificate that could be used to spoof content, perform phishing attacks, or perform man-in-the-middle attacks against several Google web properties has …
All Ruby on Rails versions affected by SQL injection flaw
Three new versions of popular open source web application framework Ruby on Rails have been released on Wednesday in order to fix an SQL injection vulnerability that affected …
IE zero-day used in targeted watering hole attacks
News that an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability was being and has been for quite some time been used in a new “watering hole” attack has livened the …
Hacking Web Apps
Web security impacts applications, servers and browsers. Successful attacks against Web applications and sites means bad news for their owners, developers and users. This book …
“Change Facebook color theme” scam leads to spying Chrome extension
The end of one year and the beginning of another strikes a lot of people as the perfect moment to change something in their life and start with the proverbial clean slate. …