Zeljka Zorz
Clever spear-phishing emails hit employees involved in SEC filings
FireEye has flagged a sophisticated spear-phishing campaign hitting US-based businesses with emails purportedly coming from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). …
Western Digital My Cloud NAS devices wide open to attackers
Western Digital My Cloud NAS devices have again been found wanting in the security department, as two set of researchers have revealed a number of serious flaws in the …
Leaked: Docs cataloguing CIA’s frightening hacking capabilities
WikiLeaks has released 8,761 documents and files they claim originate from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) – more specifically, from an “isolated, …
Trojanized Facebook Lite steals info, installs apps
A Trojanized Facebook Lite app for Android has been found stealing device information and installing malicious apps in the background. How can this happen? There is some …
IoT goods, software and digital services to be evaluated for privacy and security
Consumer Reports, a US non-profit group whose extensive reviews of consumer goods have helped the public make informed and better choices for many decades, has announced that …
Machine learning in information security: Getting started
Machine learning (ML) technologies and solutions are expected to become a prominent feature of the information security landscape, as both attackers and defenders turn to …
DNSMessenger backdoor/RAT uses DNS queries to communicate with C&C server
How to make sure that your malware will be able to communicate with its C&C servers even if the infected machine sits behind a company firewall and traffic to and from …
Poachers are trying to hack animal tracking systems
Animal tracking through electronic tagging has helped researchers gain insight into the lives of many wild animal species, but can also be misused by wildlife poachers, …
Google, Microsoft increase bug bounties
Bug hunters, rejoice: both Google and Microsoft have announced a considerable increase of the amount they will pay out for information about bugs in their products. Google ups …
Yahoo cookie-forging incident affected 32 million accounts
We finally know how many user accounts were affected by last year’s Yahoo cookie-forging incident: 32 million. What happened? “In November and December 2016, we …
132 compromised apps removed from Google Play
Google has recently removed 132 Android apps from Google Play due to them containing in their local HTML pages hidden iFrames linking to malicious domains. But even though …
Chrome users on macOS to see more dangerous site warnings
MacOS users who use Chrome to surf the web are likely to see more security warnings in the coming days, as Google’s Safe Browsing service will start flagging sites …
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