Zeljka Zorz
Privacy pitfalls of online dating
It used to be that you were pretty much anonymous on the Internet if you chose to be, but those halcyon days are now gone, and you should think about whether it’s safe …
Active mobile botnet enslaves thousands of Android devices
A trojanized Android application for configuring phone settings has been enslaving the devices of the customers of China’s two largest mobile carriers into a botnet …
Chrome to stop using online checks to spot revoked certificates
Future versions of Google’s Chrome browser will no longer use online revocation checks to verify whether the HTTPS site the user wants to visit possesses a valid …
Trustwave revokes “MitM” certificate, vows never to issue one again
Certificate authority Trustwave has revoked a subordinate root certificate it issued to a company that allowed it to intercept their employees’ private email …
More bogus ad-serving Android apps evade Google’s Bouncer
Users searching for games on the official Android Market have lately been heavily targeted by ad-pushing scammers. First it was the fake Temple Run app, and now a string of …
Public beta of Flash Player sandbox for Firefox is out
A little over a year after the implementation of a Flash Player sandbox into Google Chrome, Adobe has announced the release of a public beta of its new Flash Player sandbox …
pcAnywhere code allegedly leaked after failed extortion attempt
Late Monday evening a 1.2GB file named “Symantec’s pcAnywhere Leaked Source Code” was posted on The Pirate Bay. The security firm has downloaded and is …
Fake Temple Run app found on Android Market
Android users who were looking forward to playing the popular Temple Run game – currently available only for iOS devices – have probably thought that the happy day …
Convincing tax-themed spam leads to malware
With the US tax season underway, users are constantly being targeted with tax-themed spam. The latest one to be spotted is an email purportedly coming from Inuit, a US company …
Trojan rounds up and steals Word and Excel docs
Beware of bogus FedEx emails asking you to review a shipment notification – the attached Fedex_Invoice.exe is actually a downloader Trojan that opens you computer to …
Hungarian sentenced for hacking, blackmailing Marriot
Attila Nemeth, a 26-year-old Hungarian national who tried to blackmail Marriot International into giving him a job by stealing the company’s internal documents and …
Update on the Kelihos botnet
Reports that the Kelihos botnet is back online and that its original operators are again trying to take over its reigns have been premature, says Microsoft. “Contrary to …