Zeljka Zorz
Win free tickets for GRC 2010 in Lisbon
At the end of October, an event named GRC 2010 is to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, and it proposes to bring to its participants the main challenges that managers involved in …
Fake “universal” iPhone jailbreaking exploit contains Trojan
When Apple released iOS 4.0.2 which, among other things, patched the vulnerabilities that allowed iPhone owners to jailbreak their device, these users were faced with the …
4chan users take MPAA, RIAA websites down with DDoS attacks
The websites of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Indian tech firm Aiplex Software were crashed by DDoS attacks yesterday. The architects and executors of …
Google rolls out 2-factor authentication for Gmail and Apps
In view of the ever increasing number of successful phishing attacks that leave users with compromised accounts, Google has announced the introduction of two-step verification …
Cybercriminals steal Interpol Chief’s identity to access info on fugitives
Ronald Noble, Interpol’s Secretary General, has revealed that cybercriminals have opened two fake Facebook accounts using his name and used them to gather sensitive …
Smartphone security risks and best practices research
ENISA is looking into smartphones and determining best practices for their use while researching the risks. Several manufacturers have been involved: RIM, Google, Microsoft, …
How do we defend the Internet of the future?
As the Internet evolves, it will offer a vast array of possibilities such as new types of health services, personalized and mixed reality entertainment, and more. With new …
Inside backup and storage: The expert’s view
How much data do we create? How do we secure it? Store it? Retrieve it? When professional community Wikibon recently translated the amount of digital information that is …
Google engineer abuses power, violates privacy of minors
A Google Site Reliability Engineer was fired in July after an internal investigation by the company that confirmed that he violated the privacy of several underage users. …
Securing new objects on the Internet landscape
By now, we are all used to hearing that the advent of mobile devices represents a network security nightmare, but they are hardly the only ones we need to worry about. Sensor …
Privacy expectations and the generation gap
Young people and old people use the Internet differently, and their privacy expectations vary. Young people are very fluent with social media – but not necessarily …
Dynamic worm wreaks havoc
A rather industrious worm has been detected by Trend Micro threat analysts, and it usually infects users who have been careless enough to click on a link offered in a variety …