Zeljka Zorz
FBI announces cyberattack-reporting portal for private sector companies
The US FBI has launched iGuardian, an online portal for private sector companies that allows them to easily and consistently report to the Bureau any cyber threat or attack …
ZeroAcces rootkit dominates, adds new persistence techniques
According to a recent report by Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary Kindsight, as much as 10 percent of home networks and over 0.5 percent of mobile devices are infected with malware, …
Researchers hack femtocells, record mobile phones’ calls, SMS traffic
Intercepting voice calls, SMS messages, and web traffic coming and going from a target’s mobile phone may be as simple as waiting for his phone to associate to a …
Snowden given asylum by Russia, leaves Moscow airport
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in the Russian Federation and has left the transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, RT reports. …
All Facebook users get secure browsing by default
After having introduced secure browsing as an option in 2011, and having begun rolling out always-on HTTPS by default for users in North America late last year, Facebook is …
Malware attacks via malicious iPhone chargers
Do you ever think twice about using someone else’s charger for recharging your iPhone? Well, you will now, as three Georgia Tech researchers have managed to install a …
New leaks say NSA can see all your online activities
If you have followed the unfolding of the NSA surveillance scandal, you have probably heard the mantra “It’s only metadata!” repeated many times by US …
Canonical reveals details of Ubuntu Forums hack
Canonical has published a postmortem on the recent Ubuntu Forums hack and has shared a blow-by-blow account on how the attack was carried out. At 16:58 UTC on 14 July 2013, …
Chrome, Firefox users targeted with account-hijacking plugins
Hijacked social networking accounts can be monetized in a number of ways, so cyber crooks are always thinking up new ways of doing so, preferably without the user noticing. …
How to spot and avoid SMS scams
2013 has been touted by Gartner as the year when mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide. When you think about it, it’s logical, …
72k people affected by University of Delaware hack
University of Delaware is the latest of the high-learning institutions in the US to have been hit with a cyber attack that resulted in a data breach. According to a …
Microsoft announces MAPP overhaul
Introduced in 2008, the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) was created to give antivirus vendors a head start against malware developers. Vendors would get …