Zeljka Zorz
Anti-Anonymous hacker takes credit for The Pirate Bay DDoS
After 72 hours of being hit with an extensive DDoS attack and having been intermittently inaccessible to its visitors, The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks are back online. It was …
Briton jailed for hacking a Facebook account
Gareth Crosskey, a 21-year-old from West Sussex who was arrested for hacking into a private Facebook account, has been handed down a prison sentence of 12 months by the …
Most CCTV systems are easily accessible to attackers
The use of CCTV cameras for physical surveillance of all kinds of environments has become so pervasive that most of us don’t give the devices a second thought anymore. …
Kickstarter bug granted access to unlaunched projects
A bug in the private application programming interface (API) of Kickstarter, the popular crowd funding website for creative projects, has exposed details about 70,000 projects …
Avira “fixes” PC-crippling update bug
On Monday, Avira issued a faulty Service Pack for all of its products running on 32-bit versions of Windows, which resulted in massive problems for users as the …
Ads on Wikipedia can point to malware infection
Every now and then, Wikipedia’s popularity and brand are misused by malware peddlers, typosquatters and scammers. But the fact that the Wikipedia project is funded …
Banking Trojan masquerading as Chrome installer
Brazilian and Peruvian users looking to install Google’s Chrome browser are in grave danger of downloading information-stealing malware instead. “We recently found …
Avira Antivirus update wreaks havoc on millions of PCs
If you are a user of any of the paid versions of Avira’s various antivirus and security software and you have tried to update it/them in the last 24 hours, chances are …
Apple ships Flashback removal tool for OS X 10.5 Leopard
Following the discovery of a 600K strong Flashback botnet, Apple has been trying to undo the damage to its reputation and has worked on issuing tools, patches and updates …
Pinterest scam toolkits widen the pool of potential scammers
Seemingly overnight, Pinterest gained massive momentum, making cyber scammers sit up and take notice, then jump right in. But the opportunities the site gives to those looking …
Sophisticated bogus PayPal emails lead to phishing
PayPal users are currently being targeted with emails purportedly coming from the e-payment giant and asking for their help: Dear Customer, We need your help resolving an …
Fake “Account blocked!” email targets Hotmail users
Hotmail users are once again targeted by phishers. With “E-mail account alert!” in the Subject line, the fake email ostensibly comes from Microsoft. “This …
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