Zeljka Zorz
Yahoo Mail now has HTTPS on by default
With a short blog post, Yahoo’s SVP of Communication Products Jeff Bonforte has announced that the company has started encrypting all connections between their users and …
NSA employee will remain as co-chair on crypto standards group
NSA employee Kevin Igoe will continue to be one of the two co-chairs of the Crypto Forum Research Group (CFRG), which helps the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) review …
New Zeus variant stymies malware analysis, has rootkit capabilities
As expected, variants of the infamous Zeus banking Trojan are becoming more adept at hiding their presence from users and AV solutions, and at preventing malware analysis …
Investigating Internet Crimes
Cybercrime is exploding, we all know that. But if you ever wondered about how online crimes are investigated by law enforcement, wonder no more: this guide book goes through …
OpenSUSE forums defaced via unknown vBulletin 0-day
The official forums of the openSUSE Linux distribution have been hacked and defaced by a Pakistani hacker that goes by the handle “H4x0r HuSsY.” According to THN, …
Deadly new ransomware soon to be released?
As disruptive as Cryptolocker is, there’s a possibility that an even deadlier type of ransomware will soon be targeting unsuspecting users. White-hat security research …
Multi-protocol SoftEther VPN becomes open source
In March 2013, a Japanese student by the name of Daiyuu Nobori set up VPN Gate, a free VPN service that he hoped would be used by Internet users who wish to avoid their …
“Unauthorized activity on your Amazon account” phishing email doing rounds
The pre-holiday online shopping frenzy has ended, but scam and phishing attempts continue unabated. The latest email spam campaign aiming for login credentials is one that …
How to make malware warnings more effective?
An effective security warning is concrete and clear, appeals to authority, and doesn’t pop up too often, say the results of a study into the psychology of malware …
WoW gamers targeted with trojanized Curse client
The DDoS attacks that temporarily took down Blizzard’s Battle.net and Valve’s Steam online gaming services over the end of the year holidays have undoubtedly …
Yahoo visitors got served with malicious ads
Visitors to the main Yahoo domain have been targeted with malicious ads that redirected them to an exploit kit serving different types of malware, the Dutch security audit …
Snapchat makes no apology for breach, announces app update
One good thing to come from the leak of usernames and phone numbers of some 4.6 million Snapchat users is that the company is now forced to patch the exploited …
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