Zeljka Zorz
Vending machine company breach results in massive credit card data theft
Credit and debit card data of some 40,000 people who visited the Wilderness Resorts water parks in Wisconsin and Tennessee from December 12, 2008 to May 25, 2011 has been …
Facebook tool automates syphoning of user data
A group of security researchers has developed a proof-of-concept Java-based tool that could allow malicious individuals to automatize the syphoning of information from a …
Bogus “last words” Facebook app offer leads to malware
Humans have many impulses and fears, and cyber crooks can be counted on exploiting each and every one of them for achieving their purposes. The latest example of this has been …
Large EU IT systems to be managed by single agency
The first step towards a pan-European agency that will manage the large IT systems common to all member states has been taken, reports Computerworld. The EU’s General …
NBC News Twitter account hijacked by using a Trojan?
On the very eve of the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the NBC News Twitter account begun posting messages saying that two civilian airplanes have been hijacked …
GlobalSign audit reveals only isolated web server breach
GlobalSign – the CA that has been named by the Comodohacker as also compromised and has stopped issuing certificates until it finished investigating these claims – …
Linux Foundation suffers security breach
Some two weeks after the discovery of the compromise of the kernel.org website and several servers in its infrastructure comes the news that the Linux.com and …
Researchers steal 20GB of corporate emails via doppelganger domains
Typosquatting is a well-known phenomena on the Internet. Most users have – at one point or another – misspelled the URL of the site they wanted to visit and were …
Mozilla requests Firefox CAs to confirm they haven’t been compromised
As Google began notifying users that have been possibly affected by man-in-the-middle attacks through the use of the rogue SSL certificate issued by compromised CA DigiNotar, …
Facebook birthday scam
Facebook users are being targeted by a rather unusual scam, warns Sophos. This one lures them in with the offer of a free official Facebook T-shirt as a way to celebrate the …
Computer forensics tool reveals past online activity
A group of researchers from Stanford University in California and EADS Defence & Security has recently presented a new, open source tool for the forensic analysis of …
Scammers demand $143 from Windows users, threaten with file deletion
German Windows users are the latest target of some pretty brazen scammers, warns Panda Security. The whole thing starts with a Trojan – likely received via spammy emails …
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