Zeljka Zorz
“Southwest Airlines giveaway” Facebook scam doing rounds
A new survey scam is targeting Facebook users, misusing the name of well-known Southwest Airlines to supposedly offer two free tickets to any destination within the U.S. Users …
Log audit reveals developer outsourced his job to China
Log analysis can reveal a lot of security mistakes and fails, but a lot of security sins, too. Take for example the incident recently shared by Verizon’s Risk Team: …
Automated YouTube account generator offered to cyber crooks
You’re a spammer / malware peddler / phisher, and want to register hundreds of bogus accounts on a popular online service such as YouTube in order to lead users to your …
Microsoft patches critical IE 0-day used in watering hole attacks
Microsoft has released an out-of-band patch for the Internet Explorer 0-day recently discovered to have been misused in a series of targeted watering hole attacks linked to …
Fake MSN/Hotmail email alert phishes for user info
Despite the fact that spam levels decreased by 53% in 2012 as compared to 2011, targeted spam and phishing attacks via e-mail are on the rise. Some of these campaigns consist …
Aaron Swartz’s death triggers MIT investigation, website hack
The news that well-known Web activist and developer Aaron Swartz took his own life on Friday resounded across the Internet at an amazing speed during this past weekend. Many …
Oracle patches critical 0-day with new Java update
Oracle has released Java 7 Update 11, the computing platform’s newest version that patches the recently discovered and currently widely misused zero-day vulnerability, …
Disable Java! Recent 0-day exploit is included in exploit kits
The Java zero-day that has recently been spotted being exploited in the wild has turned into big, big news as a number of popular exploit kits have been fitted with the …
Fake LinkedIn notifications lead to phishing and malware
LinkedIn users are once again targeted with a massive and widespread spam campaign that takes the form of a notification about a supposedly received message from a potential …
Spoofed Google Chrome update page serves malware
Malware peddlers are taking advantage of yesterday’s release of the latest version of Google Chrome and have already set up a spoofed page of the initial rollout page in …
DDoS attackers on U.S. banks get help from hired botnets
It’s already common knowledge that major commercial bank in the U.S. are under a new series of DDoS attacks. As with the first one, the responsibility for this one that …
FISAA legalizes surveillance of EU citizens and their cloud data, claims study
When the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act (FISAA) was extended for another 5 years thanks to a majority vote in the U.S. Senate late last year, there …