Zeljka Zorz
Facebook privacy changes
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed Facebook users via an open letter today, and announced a few changes aimed at improving the privacy settings and allow users more …
Privacy in the spotlight: 8 million reasons
There is an all-around media frenzy going on about the 8 million GPS location requests that Sprint Nextel received and automatically granted through a web portal to law …
Espionage 2.5.4
Espionage is a discreet tool that integrates seamlessly with Apple's Finder, and its main "reason of being" is to protect individual folders and applications by encrypting its …
Spam ring leader fined $16 million
Lance Atkinson, the Australia-based New Zealander that has been found guilty of organizing a spam ring along with American accomplice Jody Smith, has been fined with more that …
FreeBSD bug grants root access to unprivileged users
A FreeBSD exploit that grants OS root access to unprivileged users was published yesterday on the Full Disclosure mailing list by Nikolaos Rangos, a German researcher that has …
Scam victim psychology: What makes you vulnerable?
“Understanding scam victims: seven principles for systems security” is a paper by Frank Stajano, an associate professor with the Computer Laboratory of the …
Clientless SSL VPN products break browser security mechanisms
Clientless SSL VPN products from multiple vendors put users at risk of a variety of web-based attacks because they “break fundamental browser security mechanisms”. …
Bit.ly steps up security
Bit.ly, one of the most popular URL shortening services, announced it will be integrating three new security-related services by the end of the year: 1. Websense’s …
Latest Windows security patches trigger black screen
You’re starting up your Windows (7, Vista, XP, NT, W2K, W2K3 or W2K8 PC or server) and everything looks normal. You log in, and your faced with a black screen with a …
Password attacks, tips and tricks
Almost a year ago, the Microsoft Malware Protection Center launched a honeypot FTP server with the intention of researching the attacks that normal users are subjected on an …
Thanksgiving scams: Warming up for Christmas
Sometimes it is difficult to tell the difference between legitimate online offers and malicious spam. In this day and age, you can be pretty sure that financial and government …
iPhone anti-virus software: Has the time come?
Anti-virus software has already been made available for various mobile phones. Security firm F-Secure offers protection for phones with Windows Mobile and Symbian and …