Zeljka Zorz
Koobface says goodbye to Facebook
Koobface – the computer worm that targets users of the social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and others – has stopped using Facebook to …
“Official Profile Viewer Application” Facebook scam
After many, many offers of applications that supposedly show Facebook users who views their profile the most, has the time finally come when these lures don’t work as …
Spam about the Jasmine Revolution leads to malware
By the end of 2010, the total number of Chinese Internet users reached 457 million. That means that even if scammers and hackers concentrate exclusively on that particular …
TJX hacker appeals his sentence, claims US government sanctioned his crimes
Albert Gonzales has become a well-known name in information security circles when he was charged of having organized a gang of cyber thieves that managed to steal over 130 …
US government to deliver terror alerts via Facebook and Twitter
Color-coded terror alerts for US citizens could very soon become a thing of the past. Starting from April 27, the Department of Homeland Security is likely to differentiate …
Scammers continue to exploit Japanese disasters
As Japan has been struck again by a high-magnitude earthquake and warnings about a possible tsunami hitting the Japanese islands have been issued, malware peddlers have …
Privacy violations by popular mobile apps under investigation
An ongoing grand-jury investigation has revealed that many mobile applications could be sending various user information to advertising networks without the users’ …
Mining the Social Web: Analyzing Data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Other Social Media Sites
The only way you could have missed the fact that the social networking boom has led to huge amounts of social data becoming available to knowledgeable searchers is if you …
Servers breached at Fortune 100 company
The Connecticut-based Hartford Financial Services Group – a Fortune 100 company and one of the largest investment and insurance companies in the US – has suffered …
Bogus Facebook app harvests user login credentials
A bogus application harvesting Facebook users’ login credentials has recently appeared on the social network, according to Symantec researchers. Luring in users with …
MITM attacks made possible by SSL certs issued for unqualified names
The recent compromise of a Comodo affiliate Registration Authority which resulted in the issue of nine rogue SSL certificates for seven popular domains has jolted the security …
New Chinese bootkit opens the door to multiple infections
A new bootkit – kernel-mode rootkit variant – has been recently spotted by a Kaspersky Lab researchers, and it looks like is currently targeting only Chinese …