Zeljka Zorz
Bredolab botnet beheaded
Botnet takedowns have become a common occurrence this year, and the last one to be hit is Bredolab. Counting some 30 million bots and nearly 150 command and control centers, …
Iranian Cyber Army behind TechCrunch Europe hack?
Political hacking might give the perpetrators a sense of accomplishment and some personal satisfaction, but will rarely bring them money. Since they obviously already have the …
A closer look at Watchmac
Watchmac (v.1.6) is a handy piece of software that will tell you if someone has fiddled with your laptop while you were gone – moved it, removed its battery or unplugged …
Fabric weaves security into program code
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could build security into a program as it is written? This idea spurred a number of researchers from Cornell University to try and develop …
Twitter phish targets users with huge following
A link that will supposedly take users to a page where they can use a “mobile” version of Twitter has been popping up here and there in a number of chatrooms over …
Apple resolves FaceTime security flaw
A flaw in the beta version of Apple’s FaceTime for Mac which was presented on Wednesday, has apparently allowed potential hackers to gain access to and modify a …
Firefox extension makes social network ID spoofing trivial
A simple-to-use Firefox plugin presented yesterday at Toorcon in San Diego has hit the security world with the realization that squabbles about Facebook’s changing …
MySpace apps send user IDs to advertisers
In the wake of the discovery that some third party Facebook applications transmit users’ ID to ad agencies and Internet tracking companies, The Wall Street Journal has …
A “private” banking Trojan competes with ZeuS
The recent surge of brand new banking Trojans continues to give us more things to worry about. The latest one is named “Feodo”, and it has been around for months …
Facebook works on solution to stop inadvertent user ID sharing
The recent discovery that various third-party application on Facebook were sending users’ ID numbers and/or names to advertising agencies every time the users click on …
Fake MS Security Essentials peddles rogue AV products
I was wondering when will rogue AV peddlers start using the name of a real AV product, and now I have my answer. F-Secure has detected one called Microsoft Security Essentials …
Fake Stuxnet removal tool wreaks havoc
The Stuxtnet Trojan hit the headlines pretty hard, and people around the world feared that their system was compromised, too. Among the legitimate Stuxnet removal tools that …
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