Zeljka Zorz
Fake Apple Store discount card leads to identity theft
Bogus discount card offers purportedly coming from Apple and offering to recipients to buy a AU$100 worth in store credit for the small sum of AU$9 have recently been …
Pen-testing Cookie Cadger continues where Firesheep left off
When the Firesheep extension was revealed to the world in late 2010, its developer said that his main goal was to get sites to switch to full end-to-end encryption, i.e. SSL. …
Visual Android Trojan as virtual theft aid
The rise of mobile malware in the last few years has been well documented, and the latest reports show that malware sending out text messages to premium rate numbers is the …
White House Military Office breached by Chinese hackers
Following the recent confirmation by a senior intelligence officer with the U.S. Cyber Command that the Pentagon systems and networks are constantly under cyber attacks and …
IEEE password compromise was due to proxy “anomaly”
Romanian researcher Radu Dragusin has revealed last week that he found the usernames and passwords of 100,000 members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers …
Major U.S. banks still under DDoS attack
PNC Bank seems to be the latest target of the organized DDoS attacks agains major U.S. financial institutions such as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, …
Adobe admits breach, will revoke compromised code signing certificate
Adobe has confirmed that one of their build servers that has access to the Adobe code signing infrastructure has been compromised, allowing attackers to digitally sign two …
Mozilla launches its privacy-friendly website login system
Remember Mozilla’s introduction of the BrowserID browser-based system for identifying and authenticating users? Well, the login system that was created a …
The economy behind ransomware attacks
First spotted in Russia in 2005, ransomware attacks have since spread to other countries – mainly those of the Western world – by using geo-location to target …
Australian police disrupts sophisticated credit card fraud syndicate
A husband and wife were arrested today in Ryde, New South Wales, following what was dubbed as one of the most most serious identity crime investigations undertaken by the …
Samsung fixes Galaxy S3 bug, researchers offer fix for other phones
Given the amount of information we all keep on our smartphones, it’s no wonder that the recently demonstrated Samsung Galaxy S3 remote data-wipe hack has ruffled quite a …
Fake Visa/Mastercard “Security incident” notifications doing rounds
Bogus emails purportedly sent by the Visa/Mastercard “Identity Theft Department” are targeting the cards’ users by trying to convince them that a …
Featured news
Sponsored
Don't miss
- Researchers reveal exploitable flaws in corporate VPN clients
- Black Friday shoppers targeted with thousands of fraudulent online stores
- RomCom hackers chained Firefox and Windows zero-days to deliver backdoor
- How to recognize employment fraud before it becomes a security issue
- Practical strategies to build an inclusive culture in cybersecurity