Zeljka Zorz
EU data breach notification law under advisement
The recent onslaught of cyber attacks against a variety of companies big and small and the consequent compromises of user information gathered by them has led the European …
An anonymous social network in the making?
Spurred by blocked accounts of Anonymous members and activists on various popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and (recently) Google+, a group apparently loosely …
Vodafone femtocell hack allows call interception on unpatched devices
News that The Hacker’s Choice had revealed a proof-of-concept attack for hacking Vodafone’s Sure Signal femtocells (routers for boosting phone signals) and turning …
New Hotmail security features against account hijacking
Microsoft has decided to introduce two new security features for its web-based Hotmail service, in the hope that this will make the accounts more difficult to hijack and …
90 people arrested for organized eBay fraud
90 suspects belonging to three different cyber fraud gangs have been arrested following a coordinated action by the Romanian Directorate for the Investigation of Organized …
Apple iDisk users targeted by phishers
Users of iDisk – Apple’s paid online file-hosting service bundled up in the MobileMe package – are being targeted by phishers, warns Symantec. Its …
Is WordPress next in line for silent updates?
Silent software updates are still a topic of contention in the security world, but the successful implementation of the process by Google for its Chrome browser has definitely …
Did U.K. journalists use malware to spy on people?
The scandal that led to the demise of U.K. newspaper News of the World and to an investigation into the illegal methods used by journalists and editors in order to acquire …
Google+ related scams move to Facebook
Scammers continue to take advantage of the great interest raised by the introduction of Google+ and have begun tricking Facebook users into giving them access to their …
Massive sentence for Wi-Fi hacking neighbor
The Kostolnik family’s nightmare is over – the neighbor that has hacked into their Wi-Fi network and misused the access for terrorizing them has been sentenced to …
Law enforcement supports new U.S. data retention bill
A new proposal for a U.S. federal law that would compel ISPs to retain logs regarding their customers for 18 months is currently being discussed in the House of …
“Traffic ticket” spam email leads to scareware
A malicious email purportedly coming from the New York State Police is currently doing the rounds of inboxes and trying to scare people into opening and running the attached …