Online banking rip-offs go up, card fraud goes down
Losses due to credit and debit card fraud have fallen for the first time in 3 years, says the UK Cards Association, only to be supplanted by a rising incidence of phishing …
Zeljka Zorz
And the winner is – FakeAV!
Taking advantage of the Oscar fever, criminals have poisoned search results regarding the award ceremony. Entering “oscar winners live 2010” you get this: …
UK threatens to retaliate over cyber attacks
Rapidly approaching the point when retaliation against countries suspected of launching cyber attacks and engaging in cyber espionage will be ordered, the UK …
Log review checklist for security incidents
Anton Chuvakin, the well-known security expert and consultant in the field of log management and PCI DSS compliance and author of many books, and Lenny Zeltser, leader of the …
Mariposa bot distributed by Vodafone’s infected phone
Following yesterday’s news about the Energizer DUO USB recharger that infects PCs with a Trojan, here is another piece of equipment whose software comes bundled with …
Setting up a mobile botnet is alarmingly easy to do
The relative easiness of setting up a mobile botnet of nearly 8,000 phones has been demonstrated by Derek Brown and Daniel Tijerina at this year’s edition of the RSA …
“Highly critical” Opera vulnerability discovered
A highly critical buffer overflow vulnerability affecting the Opera browser has been discovered by Marcin Ressel of Secunia: The vulnerability is caused due to an error when …
Serious Apache vulnerability disclosed
A serious vulnerability in Apache’s HTTP web server that enables the attacker to gain remote access to the server and total control of a database, has been discovered by …
There is a social engineering scheme for everyone
The human factor is the weakest link of the security chain – this statement has been said and written so many times, that is starting to become a cliche’. Even so, …
USB battery charger installs Trojan
The software that shows to which extent the battery is charged through the Energizer DUO USB recharger comes bundled up with a Trojan, says US CERT. The installer file for the …
Zuckerberg hacked into journalists’ email?
The renowned Facebook co-founder has been accused three years ago of stealing the source code and the business plan for the social network from some Harvard colleagues and for …
Fake drug peddlers hijack academic websites
Legal sites are often compromised and used as a stepping stone through which the user is taken to a malicious site. The latest of this kind of schemes has seen a string of …