Zeljka Zorz
Facebook apps send user information to ad agencies
Some five months ago, news broke that social networks were sending users’ ID numbers and/or names to advertising agencies every time the users click on the ads, by way …
Seven Deadliest Microsoft Attacks
Part of Syngress' "The Seven Deadliest Attack Series", this book introduces the reader to the anatomy of attacks aimed at Microsoft's networks and software: Windows, SQL and …
Fake Twitter homepages serving malware
A number of bogus Twitter main pages have been popping up and are offering misdirected users a chance to see naked ladies and to download malicious applications, Sunbelt …
ZeuS gang using malicious LinkedIn spam targets Charles Schwab accounts
The recently started LinkedIn spamming campaign that delivers the ZeuS Trojan – or, according to some, the Bugat Trojan – has been tied to a gang that uses the …
Government agents following suspects on social networks
The issue of whether or not government or law enforcement agents are or should be allowed to go “undercover” on social networks is not a new one, but thanks to the …
ZeuS developers up the ante with beefed up variant
ZeuS has for a while now been almost a synonym for banking Trojans of every shape and form. Some say that the attention that the information security community has focused on …
Android SMS Trojan variant targets Russian users
It worked for the first two times, why wouldn’t it a for third? It’s likely that the same scammers who were behind the previously discovered Android Trojan …
Microsoft’s Network compromised, used to route traffic to spam websites
Microsoft has confirmed that two network devices on its network have indeed been compromised and were being used by criminals to route traffic to more than a thousand websites …
A closer look at SafeCopy Backup
SafeCopy Backup is an online backup service that allows you to backup files from an unlimited number of Windows and Mac computers and mobile devices, to access them from …
Amazon Seller Central vulnerable to XSS
To demonstrate that the Amazon Seller Central password reset page is vulnerable to an XSS attack, a regular submitter to the XSSed.com website has injected an iFrame tag that …
FakeAV peddlers targeting computer professionals
Malware peddlers have a general preference for compromising legitimate sites in order to distribute their malicious wares. Sometimes it is easier to compromise an already …
Facebook introduces one-time passwords
For all those who simply must access Facebook from a public computer, the social network introduced the option of receiving a one-time password to be used instead of their …