Zeljka Zorz
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 …
Apple moves to prevent popular app scam tactic
In an effort to prevent malicious apps from being inadvertently allowed to go on sale on the Apple App Store, the company has decided to make it difficult for developers to …
Japanese cops collar malware-carrying cat
When imagining law enforcement officers investigating and searching for cyber criminals or evidence about their activities, the last thing that you can probably envision is …
Critical Ruby on Rails flaws fixed, upgrade immediately
For the second week in a row since the start of the new year, users of open source web application framework Ruby on Rails are advised to upgrade to the newly offered versions …
HTTPS for Yahoo! Mail is now available
Yahoo has finally decided to offer to the users of its popular Yahoo! Mail service the option of encrypting their entire webmail session by switching on the Secure Sockets …
U.S. nuke lab removes Chinese equipment from its networks
The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico – one of the two U.S. laboratories that are engaged in designing nuclear weapons – has removed at least two …
New twists to previously-existing cyber scams
FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released a report detailing recent cyber crime trends and new twists to previously-existing cyber scams. Among them is a …
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 …
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