Zeljka Zorz
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 …
How can we build a secure IoT world?
We have almost daily proof that the Internet of Things, as it is now, is a minefield of security issues that are just waiting to be exploited. The unfortunate reality is that …
CloudPets connected toys can be turned into remote surveillance devices
The CloudPets data breach saga continues, as Spiral Toys finally reported the breach to the California Attorney General’s Office. As a reminder: Leaked data provided to …
Victims of Filecoder ransomware for macOS can now decrypt their files
Last week, researchers discovered and analyzed a new piece of ransomware targeting a specific subset of Mac users: those who are looking for ways to crack legal copies of some …
ESET antivirus opens Macs to remote code execution
Like any other software, security software is sure to have some vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers. The latest in a long list of examples that prove this fact …
Germans, Czechs served with banking malware through SMS
German and Czech Android users are getting served with a banking Trojan directly through text messages, warns malware researcher Bart Blaze. The message claims that the user …
Google releases details, PoC exploit code for IE, Edge flaw
As we’re impatiently waiting for Microsoft to patch vulnerabilities that were scheduled to be fixed in February, Google has released details about a serious …
Cyber extortionists hold MySQL databases for ransom
Ransomware has become cyber crooks’ favorite attack methodology for hitting businesses, but not all cyber extortion attempts are effected with this particular type of …
The failure of EU’s regulation on cyber-surveillance tech exports
When in April 2016 the Italian Ministry of Economical Progress revoked Hacking Team’s licence to export their Galileo remote control software outside of the EU, it …
Which countermeasures improve security and which are a waste of money?
If you want to know about which cyber defenses are most effective and which are a waste of money and resources, ask a hacker. And that’s just what Nuix researchers did. …
New attack sounds death knell for widely used SHA-1 crypto hash function
SHA-1 is definitely, provenly dead, as a group of researchers from CWI Institute in Amsterdam and Google have demonstrated the first practical technique for generating a …
Suspected Deutsche Telekom router hacker arrested
A 29-year-old British national, believed to be the mastermind behind last November’s unsuccessful hijacking attempt of Deutsche Telekom users’ routers, was …
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