Zeljka Zorz
Multilingual PayPal phishing e-mails doing rounds
A recent report compiled by OpenDNS showed that 45 percent of all phishing attempts made in 2010 were targeting PayPal customers. It is no wonder then that we witness PayPal …
Facebook bug allows user data theft via specially crafted websites
A proof-of-concept attack page that exploits a Facebook vulnerability to access a user’s private data has been devised by two students who shared the information with …
Spammers gearing up for Valentine’s Day
A spam run that supposedly offers flowers to send to your loved one is currently landing in inboxes around the world, but a click on the “Order Now” button takes …
Chinese spies attempted to spear-phish US diplomats?
While some of the documents from the batch of US diplomatic cables dumped by WikiLeaks have proved to be more explosive than others, every now and then some nugget of …
Private info on Facebook increasingly used in court
Making the content of your Facebook account private can thwart the social network’s plan to share as much information possible with advertisers, but may not keep out …
Rogueware starts misusing names of legitimate AV
Rogueware authors have so far mostly avoided misusing names of legitimate AV software, and I often wondered why. My best guess is that they wanted to minimize the possibility …
Egyptians can now tweet without an Internet connection
After Facebook experienced the state-wide password hijacking attempt organized by the Tunisian government and solved it by using social authentication and routing login …
“Facebook closing all accounts” scam hits users
The latest scam to hit Facebook users is a slight variation of the survey scams that target them daily. But this time, the lure isn’t bogus “OMG” I …
Could a vulnerability tax spur vendors to improve security?
He has recently been appointed as Apple’s global director of security and he is expected to begin his work in March, but former National Security Agency cryptographer …
PlentyofFish CEO accuses Argentian hackers of elaborate extortion scheme
The Argentinian hackers that hacked The Pirate Bay back in July are at it again. They have supposedly hacked the popular free online dating site PlentyofFish and, according to …
ATM skimmers don’t even have to be on the ATM
Careful ATM users know enough to give a hasty visual check to the machine before using it and to hide the keyboard while entering their PIN. Unfortunately, sometimes even that …
EFF exposes extensive FBI violations
In 2009, the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a suit against a number of federal agencies that deal with intelligence gathering, requesting that they release documents and …