Zeljka Zorz
Gawker and Gizmodo visitors preyed on by malicious ads
It was only last month that the New York Times was tricked into featuring on their website a malvertisement that took over the visitors’ browser and tried to make them …
Serious cyber attacks on the horizon
A report prepared recently by James A. Lewis, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, used the recent cyber attacks that targeted the US and South Korea as a …
Suspected European cyber pirates denied Internet access without court order
The verdict is in: Europeans can be cut off the Internet for persistent file-sharing, and it can be done without a court order. According to ISPreview, the decision comes as a …
Beautiful Security: Leading Security Experts Explain How They Think
In Beautiful Security, a bevy of experts describe how they look at a particular aspect of information security. They offer the knowledge they have acquired through many years …
China clamps down on Tor
It is a well known fact that the Chinese government is a big fan of Internet censorship. The “Great Firewall of China” (a system that blocks content by preventing …
A closer look at Lavasoft Ad-Aware Free 8.1.0
Ad-Aware Free is the basic, home-use-only version of Lavasoft’s popular anti-spyware and anti-malware tool. To name just a few of its new features: Genotype detection …
What to do when Google blocks your website?
I think that everyone has encountered, at least once in their Net surfing history, the following alerts next to a search result: “This site may harm your …
NASA hacker loses another extradition appeal
BBC News reports that another episode of the Gary McKinnon 7 year long extradition saga is revealed: he has been denied the possibility of appealing to the UK Supreme Court. …
FBI Director almost got phished
Those of us who have had the good fortune and sense not to fall victim to a phishing attack, may wonder at those who have. And even get mad sometimes – if there were no …
100 people charged in multinational phishing case
It took two years of investigating and the involvement of Egypt authorities, but the FBI has reached its goal: 100 people have been finally charged for their participation in …
BlackBerry users: Beware of social engineering
According to PC World, there’s some good and some bad news for BlackBerry users. “There is no technical way of hacking a BlackBerry”, says Sheran Gunasekera, …
A closer look at GFI Backup 2009 – Home Edition 3.0
GFI Backup 2009 – Home Edition is a free backup software solution that allows you to backup all your documents, photos, music, e-mails and program settings using a …