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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 …

Viral Facebook spam campaign delivers malware

If you spot a Facebook friend of yours worrying about and linking to news about the US attacking Iran and Saudi Arabia, curb your curiosity and don’t follow the link if …

Compromised DreamHost-hosted websites lead to scams

Hundreds of websites hosted by DreamHost have been compromised and are used to redirect users to a Russian scam page, warns Zscaler. Whether or not this is the result of the …

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