Zeljka Zorz
Dating site creates profiles based on information scraped online
Various publicly available information regarding all US citizen is likely to be aggregated and be made available by Gotham Dating Partners, according to an announcement made …
Banking Trojan incorporates legitimate remote control software
It seems that every technology made for “good” can be misused, and that also goes for software, apparently. An ESET researcher has recently received a sample of …
Toolkit merging Zeus and SpyEye already on the market?
When the alleged Zeus-SpyEye merger became news last October, a lot of people wondered what new capabilities we could expect of this new toolkit. According to McAfee’s …
Inside a banking Trojan drop-zone
There can be no doubt that cybercrime is on the rise. Compared to real-world crime, it is easier, often more profitable, and carries definitely less risk to the perpetrator. …
Facebook apps now allowed to harvest users’ address and mobile phone number
The latest step that Facebook took in the long process of eroding our privacy expectations happened on Friday. The social network announced on their Developer Blog that from …
Ransomware continues to pose a threat
The great majority of cybercriminals is in it for the money. Some choose to steal it indirectly by using information-stealing malware to gain access to users’ online …
Former TSA employee sentenced for hacking agency’s databases
A former TSA worker has been found guilty and has been sentenced to two years in prison and a $60,587.07 fine to be payed to the TSA. He was accused of tampering with the …
Gamers breached medical server to play Call of Duty
An office server on which the New Hampshire Seacoast Radiology had stored sensitive personal and medical information of more than 230,000 patients has been breached in …
Bogus airline charge leads to Zeus Trojan
A recent spam campaign is targeting frequent users of a popular German airline carrier, baiting them with a exorbitant bogus fee that has apparently been charged to their …
Adobe changes Flash Player feature to prevent user tracking
In the last few years, Adobe has realized that their products will have no future if they don’t step up the security aspect, and so they started doing things like …
Raising the security bar: Know and fine-tune your IPS
A long time ago, people thought that having a firewall in place would protect their systems and networks from any and every outside attack. And for a very short while, they …
Third-party software responsible for most vulnerabilities
Most people owning a PC are familiar with Microsoft’s patching process – it’s easy and it’s there. For a lot of them, it also gives the impression that …