Zeljka Zorz
Twitter worm spreading malicious goo.gl links?
A new Twitter worm seems to be burrowing its way across the service, apparently forcing mobile Twitter users to retweet a goo.gl shortened link which they clicked on …
Search results for Mono Lake lead to malware
The recent discovery by NASA scientists of a bacteria that uses arsenic in its cellular structure has prompted a lot of people to search the Web for information about it and …
Julian Assange arrested in London
WikiLeaks’ founder and director Julian Assange has been arrested this Tuesday morning at 9.30am (GMT) at a police station in London. According to a statement by the …
Tracking a pirated software license
When Avast Software spotted a license for its avast! Pro Antivirus software being distributed online, they decided to do a simple experiment – they didn’t take any …
Doorways on non-default ports make compromised websites harder to spot
Are negligent site and server administrators at least as much to blame for compromised sites that redirect users to doorway pages to pirated software as the cyber criminals …
McAfee’s Secure Short URL Service not so secure
When the people at McAfee decided to launch its own URL-shortening service (mcaf.ee), they touted it as “secure” – meaning, that it would guarantee that the …
Securing the Smart Grid: Next Generation Power Grid Security
Smart grids are a reality and the future, and they promise greater reliability, affordability, efficiency and, hopefully, a better and environmentally cleaner exploitation of …
What happened to WikiLeaks over the weekend?
It has been a busy weekend for WikiLeaks. Their latest release made public a list of assets of strategic importance to the US, which are located across the globe. And while …
Cybergang infects all ATMs in Russian city
A group of fraudsters has been arrested in Yakutsk and Moscow for allegedly compromising all the ATMs in the city of Yakutsk – population: around 210,000 – in the …
Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake targeted by German hackers
Two German youths have allegedly been using Trojans to hack into computer belonging to over 50 pop stars, looking primarily for unreleased music but also for personal …
WikiLeaks back online on new Swiss domain
The cat and mouse game continues for WikiLeaks as it moves its site to Switzerland – wikileaks.ch is the new domain on which the whistleblowing site can be reached. The …
WikiLeaks site is down
Whether its really because the DDoS attacks against the WikiLeaks website have threatened “the stability of the EveryDNS.net infrastructure, which enables access to …