Zero-day vulnerabilities on the market
Zero-day vulnerabilities have become prized possessions to attackers and defenders alike. As the recent China-Google attack demonstrated, they are the basis on which most of …
Zeljka Zorz
Sensitive information retrieved from P2P networks
Security researchers Larry Pesce and Mick Douglas demonstrated on Friday – at this year’s ShmooCon security conference in Washington, D.C – the amazing …
Biggest Chinese hacker training site taken down
Black Hawk Safety Net, the biggest Chinese hacker training site, has been shut down by the police. The tally is: three people arrested; nine Web servers, five computers and …
Can you trust Chinese computer equipment?
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, a blogger for IT World, raised the question, but before answering it, let’s take a look at the current backdrop that should affect the …
Infected Firefox add-ons pulled off official site
Two infected Firefox add-ons managed to avoid detection and were put online, available to download, on Firefox’s official add-on download site. The one thing that …
Social networks are a danger zone
It seems that everybody is on some kind of social network these days. Checking out what our friends are doing has become part of daily routine. In today’s world, they …
Google and NSA team up to fend off future attacks
Google and the NSA reached an agreement that will see the security agency helping with the investigation of the latest attack of the Internet giant that supposedly carried out …
A closer look at File Encryption XP 1.5
File Encryption XP is a file and folder encryption program that uses the Blowfish algorithm with a 384-bit key. The files are completely self-contained which means that, if …
Police push for fast access to ISP data
According to the answers given by a 100 police investigators, they are not very satisfied with the speed with which they are able to access company documents during …
Hackers make millions through stolen carbon credits
Anything worth anything is worth something to somebody. And carbon credits are not just something small – these days, they’re worth millions. It is no wonder, …
Life of a Chinese hacker
Majia is in his early twenties, and is a college graduate with a degree in engineering. During the day, he works at a government agency. But at night, he is free to follow his …
Keeping World of Warcraft accounts safe
Blizzard Entertainment is taking seriously the string of account hijacking that had as a target its World of Warcraft users in the last few years. It is only normal, since the …