Zeljka Zorz
Google authentication protocol flaw endangers Android users
If you’re an Android user that has still not upgraded to the 2.3.4 and 3.0 version, you’re in danger of having the information contained in various Google …
New Alureon variant improves on old evasion techniques
The Alureon Trojan (also known as TDL, TDSS and Tidserv) has been around since 2007, and it’s function consist mainly in allowing the attacker to intercept incoming and …
Trojan paves way for rogue defragmenter
You might have heard about rogue AV solutions and scareware, but not many people have experienced a rogue defragmenter that hides files and (indirectly) asks money to return …
Wikipedia-like sites peddling fake pharmaceuticals
Wikipedia is practically a household name now, so it’s no wonder that spammers are trying to take advantage of the online encyclopedia’s popularity and (relative) …
Hackers steal, publish Fox employee passwords
A group of attackers who clearly have it in for Fox Broadcasting have managed to access a company server with hundreds of their employees’ email usernames and passwords. …
Obama administration reveals cybersecurity plan
The Obama administration has issued a new legislative proposal that contains a number of steps it thinks critical to improving cybersecurity for U.S. citizens, the …
PSN attackers allegedly used Amazon cloud for attack
Attackers (mis)used the Amazon cloud to mount their attack against Sony’s online services and systems, and they did it legally, says Bloomberg. According to an unnamed …
Banking Trojan gang busted by Finnish police
Seventeen people were arrested for having taken part in a criminal scheme that targeted users of Finnish Nordea Bank and resulted in fraudulent transactions in the total …
Security needs to be unified, simplified and proactive
IT security powerhouse Check Point is on a mission to make the management of security products unified and simplified, and nowhere has that message been more clear than at its …
Facebook apps found giving access to user accounts to third parties
A discovery that really should not surprise anyone has been made yesterday by Symantec – it turns out that due to to a flaw in the authentication schemes used before the …
Fake Patch Tuesday alert leads to Zeus infection
The term “Patch Tuesday” has become widely known and is so intimately tied to Microsoft that it is no wonder that malware peddlers are using it to add an aura of …
Fake AV spreading via Yahoo! Answers
From poisoned Google image search results to poisoned answers to legitimate questions on Q&A sites like Yahoo! Answers and public forums, malware peddlers are determined …
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