Zeljka Zorz
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 …
Google tests malicious download warning for Chrome
A new feature that is aimed at protecting Chrome users against the inadvertent download of malicious files is being rolled out by Google. “It’s easy to find sites …
SpyEye-fueled man-in-the-mobile attack targets bank customers
The customers of a European bank have recently been targeted by a man-in-the-mobile attack featuring a SpyEye variant. “The bank uses SMS based mTANs to authorize …
DHL Express spam campaign leads to fake AV
A new spam campaign impersonating the popular mail service DHL Express is currently underway, warn Bkis researchers. The email in question looks like this: Once the user …
Conde Nast scammed out of $8 million with single spear phishing email
Conde Nast – the company that publishes popular magazines such as Vogue, GQ, Architectural Digest, Wired, Vanity Fair, and many others – has been nearly defrauded …