Zeljka Zorz
Myanmar cut off the Internet ahead of elections
The Southeast Asian country of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) has been practically cut off the Internet as an extensive DDoS attack that started in late October has …
A closer look at Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition
The Home Edition of Sophos’ Anti-Virus for Mac is a full-featured and free anti-virus solution for home users. It stops, quarantines and cleans up threats that try to …
Sextortionist hacker caught by FBI
This has not been a good week for perverts on the Internet. First one gets arrested for hacking into e-mail and Facebook accounts of his female victims and sending their …
New IE 0-day exploit code found in the wild
Exploit code for a previously unknown Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability that would allow an attacker to perform a remote code execution and install malware on the …
Bank customers get malicious e-mails with stolen private data
The customers of a number of Brazilian banks are currently being targeted with e-mails made to look like official communication from the banks in question, but are actually …
Hole in iPhone PayPal app allows account hijacking
PayPal customers that use the payment company’s iPhone application to effectuate payments should update it as soon as possible, because a vulnerability that can be …
Fake Twitter warnings lure users to potentially malicious site
Twitter users are often targeted with various fake messages purportedly coming from the microblogging service, and these e-mails usually try to trick the users into clicking …
Popular online services graded on SSL implementation
It seems that Firesheep has succeeded where similar tools have failed in the past: the issue of full end-to-end encryption for all websites – especially the most popular …
Perverted Facebook hacker targeted women
The recent arrest of a 23-year-old California man that has allegedly hacked e-mail accounts of more than 170 women and posted sexually explicit pictures found within them to …
Google Android vulnerabilities
A shocking number of high-risk security flaws in Google’s Android smartphone OS have recently been discovered by security firm Coverity. “We found 88 high-risk …
Fake USAA e-mails phishing for card information
E-mails purportedly sent by the United States Automobile Association (USAA) have been hitting inboxes in the last few days, M86 researchers warn. In it, the recipients are …
Human rights organization targeted with cyber attack
The website of Survival International – a human rights organization that campaigns for the rights of indigenous tribal peoples – has been knocked offline last week …