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Hacker compromises email accounts of Bush family members

A hacker by the online handle “Guccifer” has apparently managed to compromise email accounts belonging to the Bush family and some of their close friends, from …

Twitter users hit with typo-squatting phishing campaign

In the wake of last week’s compromise of 250,000 Twitter accounts comes another threat to Twitter users: phishing messages – both DMs and tweets – that lure …

Bogus cleaning apps on Google Play install backdoor on PCs

Malicious Android apps able to infect and set up a backdoor on PCs running pre-Windows 7 operating systems have been recently spotted by researchers of several security …

Learn by doing: Phishing and other online tests

As a tech-savvy person in a family that mostly consists of low level Internet users – and especially because of my line of work – I’m often tasked with …

Critical flaw lets attackers control hospital, military buildings’ systems

A critical zero-day remote-access vulnerability in an industrial control system that is widely used in hospitals, military installations, manufacturing plants and other …

Massive Bamital click-fraud botnet shut down

Symantec and Microsoft have teamed up to take down the Bamital botnet, and are currently in the process of warning users infected with the Trojan on how to remove it from …

Whitehole exploit kit in the spotlight

The effectiveness of exploit kits has made them malware peddlers’ preferred way of distributing their malicious wares. The Blackhole exploit kit is, by far, the most …

Researcher warns about critical flaw in D-Link routers

A security flaw in D-Link’s DIR-300 and DIR-600 routers could allow remote attackers to inject execute arbitrary shell commands via a simple POST request without being …

Banking Trojan posing as Avast AV

A banking Trojan masquerading as the popular free AV solution from Avast has been spotted on computers of Brazilian users, reports Kaspersky Lab Expert Dmitry Bestuzhev. The …

U.S. Federal Reserve admits being breached by Anonymous

U.S. Federal Reserve confirmed the breach of one of its internal websites by the hands of Anonymous hackers, but denied that the file containing personal information of over …

Wireless Reconnaissance in Penetration Testing

Reconnaissance should always be the first stage of a cyber attack or penetration test, and the success of these attempts is usually closely tied with the quality of …

U.S. President to decide on pre-emptive cyberstrikes

As the moment when U.S. President Barack Obama will issue a cybersecurity executive order slowly draws near, other questions that affect the nation’s cyber defense and …

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