Zeljka Zorz
Trojan masquerading as PDF signed with stolen government certificate
Since the discovery of the Stuxnet worm, and especially after the recent string of certification authority compromises, cyber attackers’ practice of using digital …
Mass manipulation through automated social engineering
In the past few years, social engineering has become cyber attackers’ preferred method for gaining access to target systems, and it usually takes the form of a spoofed …
Cyber crooks should get tougher sentences, says PCeU chief
Cyber fraudsters and robbers often receive considerably lighter sentences that their real-world counterparts, says Detective Superintendent Charlie McMurdie, the head of …
Apple OS X sandbox hole allows bypassing of restrictions
Following Apple’s announcement that all applications submitted for inclusion in the App Store will have to have sandboxing implemented starting from March 1, 2012, …
Hacked Sky News Twitter account falsely reports on Murdoch arrest
Hacking Twitter feeds of popular mainstream media outlets is a perfect way of getting your message across to or create panic among a great number of people. It has also lately …
Steam server attackers grabbed passwords, credit card data
As Bethesda Software was preparing to release Skyrim, the latest installment of its mega popular Elder Scrolls series, news that the forum of Steam, the online …
Scammers sending out bogus job offers
Cyber scammers do not hesitate using every scrap of information there is on the Internet in order to gain users’ trust and misuse it for their malicious purposes. Also, …
Block cipher encryption effectively hides banking Trojan
Brazilian malware peddlers have turned to encrypting banking Trojans with block ciphers, effectively bypassing most AV software. Kaspersky Lab’s Dmitry Bestuzhev says …
How does cell phone money laundering work?
In Russia, most cell phone SIM cards are prepaid. One of the major Russian operators offers a legal service that allows anyone to transfer the prepaid amount of money from a …
New techniques for detecting hardware Trojans
Most Internet users know about the existence of software Trojans, but that of hardware ones is less known. They consist of integrated circuits that have been modified by …
DARPA invites white hats to help with U.S. cyber defense
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is asking the government to ramp up its cyber research funding from $120 million to $208 million for 2012, and in the …
Motorola attempted to crush competitor via “Chinese spy ring” allegations
Four years ago a software engineer that worked for Motorola was arrested by U.S. Customs agents as she was trying to board a plane heading for China. Hanjuan Jin was carrying …
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