Zeljka Zorz
Lawyers appeal Twitter data handover decision in WikiLeaks case
Not satisfied with the court’s decision that it has to turn over account details of three of its users to the US Department of Justice, three Twitter users have filed a …
New ransomware variant in the wild
A new variant of a piece of ransomware seen in the wild late last year has begun targeting users that made the mistake of landing on the site that serves it via drive by …
MySQL.com compromised by SQL injection attack
MySQL.com has been hacked and a part of the database containing member and employee email addresses, usernames and passwords has been published by the hackers on Pastebin.com. …
Lone hacker owns the Comodo certificate compromise
Last week’s revelation that a Comodo affiliate Registration Authority has been compromised and that nine rogue SSL certificates have been issued for popular domains such …
Rustock’s demise linked to Harnig botnet switch off
Late last week, the Rustock botnet was downed by Microsoft and the US Marshals Service after they received permission from the US District Court for the Western District of …
WoW phishing email threatens with account termination
World of Warcraft players are often targeted by phishers whose goal is to get the login credentials to as many accounts possible and bleed them dry. A recently detected one …
Cyber attacks on US federal networks on the rise
The number of cyber attacks against federal government systems and networks has increased nearly 40 percent, says in the annual report on federal cybersecurity efforts …
Randomization of code and binaries for evading AV solutions
An interesting detection evasion technique by a site that serves fake AV has recently been spotted by a Zscaler researcher. The site’s source code has been randomized so …
TripAdvisor member database breached, part of it stolen
Just days after Play.com notified its customers of a breach that resulted in their email addresses being compromised and some of its users being targeted with malicious …
Serious cyber attack targets EU institutions on eve of summit
Today is the first day of the first EU summit that takes place under the Hungarian presidency, and European leaders have gathered in Brussels to discuss matters such as the …
Twitter tests XSS attack prevention on its mobile website
Twitter has been testing and has now implemented Content Security Policy – a new standard developed by Mozilla to block cross site scripting (XSS) attacks – on its …
Japan leakage analysis emails with malicious XLS attachments
Japan’s seemingly unending series of misfortunes has so far generated a vast variety of online scams. The latest one includes spam emails containing Excel attachments …