Zeljka Zorz
iPad 2 and $1,000 gift cards offered by scammers
Typosquatting is often-used tool by online scammers who try to take advantage of users looking for legitimate pages, and a recently spotted spam campaign is employing that …
Card info of 1m Restaurant Depot customers stolen in breach
Customers of US foodservice wholesaler Restaurant Depot and “cash and carry” chain Jetro have begun receiving letters warning them about the possibility of their …
Chrome is the most secure browser, claims new study
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer does a better job protecting systems from attackers who already have gained some degree of access than Mozilla’s Firefox, and …
Spam campaign bypasses Gmail filters, employs Google Docs
Every now and then, online crooks and spammers use Google Docs to host phishing forms or documents with embedded malicious links. One such spam campaign is currently …
Premium SMS fraudulent apps target European users
European mobile phone users should be on the lookout for premium SMS toll fraud apps as a great number of them has been lately discovered on file sharing sites, third-party …
Personal info of US law enforcement agents published following hack
The official website (Clearusa.org) of the Coalition of Law Enforcement and Retail has been attacked by a hacker that goes by the handle of “Exphin1ty” who claims …
SMS Privato Spy: Another piece of bogus software for sale
Every so often, a new piece of non-existent software gets advertised by scammers that are eager to part users with their hard earned cash. The latest one to be spotted is …
Six arrested for phishing scam targeting students
Four men and two women suspected of having taken part in a sophisticated phishing scam that targeted hundreds of UK students were arrested by the Met’s Police Central …
Telstra privacy blunder reveals account details of some 1m customers
Personal and account details of over one million customers of Australian telecom giant Telstra were accessible to any Internet user – and may have been taken advantage …
EU wants firms to stop selling surveillance tools to repressive regimes
We are all aware of the fact that some regimes have no qualms about spying on their citizens in order to keep tabs on dissenters. Nevertheless, last week’s revelation by …
Delivering banking Trojan via malicious boot loaders
Brazil is a country whose Internet users are targeted almost exclusively by cyber crooks wielding banking Trojans. It is also a country where a majority of users still runs …
Download.com “cleans up” Nmap but not other downloads
When he discovered that Nmap was being distributed by C|Net’s Download.com site bundled up with a proprietary trojan installer that installed a sketchy toolbar, changed …