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Obama Administration gets a “B” for cybersecurity

The Electronic Privacy Information Center released its annual Privacy Report Card for the Obama Administration and – when compared to last year’s results – …

A peek into Google’s anti-malware operation

Google goes to great lengths to secure its users from threats lurking on the Web, because a half-hearted effort would soon drive them out of business. But, during his …

Microsoft contemplating SSL for Bing

HTTP session hijacking as a possibility and tools to execute it have been around for more than half a decade, but it took an easy-to-use Firefox add-on like Firesheep to point …

Telstra’s blunder leads to massive data leak

It is yet unknown if it was a human or computer error that made Australian telecommunications and company Telstra send out letters containing personal information (name, phone …

New 0-day flaw in Flash Player exploited in the wild?

Bad news just keep piling on Adobe – it looks like there is a new zero-day vulnerability in their Flash Player that is being exploited in the wild. Its existence is …

U.S. Postal Service mails fraud warning to 129 million households

It’s a sign of the times we live in when the U.S. Postal Service decides to carry out a mailing campaign that will deliver a brochure on fraud and identity theft to 129 …

A new approach for malware distribution

Some malware developers sell their product, other offer its source code for free. So, what’s the catch? What’s in it for them? The analysis of a malware sample …

BoingBoing hacked and defaced

BoingBoing.net, the popular blog and “directory of wonderful things”, has been hacked and its home page replaced with a message containing vulgar language and …

Alleged spam kingpin under investigation

31-year old Russian Igor Gusev is being investigated by the Russian police because they believe him to be the central figure behind the well-known spamming affiliate program …

Facebook “Check to see who has deleted you” scam

“See who your friends really are! Check to see who has deleted you,” offers the latest Facebook scam: If you’re tempted to use this application that goes by …

ZeuS-SpyEye merger

Feeling the heat of the attention of international law enforcement and the recent takedowns of various botnets and the worldwide arrests of gang members using his malware, the …

Facebook phishing worm compromises thousands of accounts

A very effective phishing worm has been targeting Facebook users and has been compromising their accounts by luring them with the offer of seeing a video. The victim would …

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