Zeljka Zorz
Cybercrime reality through FBI eyes
Addressing the crowd gathered at the Information Security Forum’s World Congress in Vancouver on Tuesday, Shawn Henry, FBI Assistant Director of Cybersecurity, shared …
Facebook groups hacked through design flaw
Mashable reports that anyone can hijack a group on Facebook just by joining the group and registering as an administrator after the real admin has left. The group is then at …
Brazilian blackout not caused by hackers
Two days ago, CBS covered the possibilities of cyber war, power grid failures and cyber bank robberies. A couple of massive power outages that took place in Brazil were …
Cyber war is coming, the impact could be huge
CBS News reports that cyber war is a reality that, according to cyber experts, the US will have to be prepared for – and soon. Admiral Mike McConnell, Former Chief of …
Single sign-in gains ground
There seems to be a persisting problem: how to remember the passwords to all the websites you use and that require you to login? For myself, I chose to use a password manager …
Facebook continues to shoot down deceptive ads
In an ongoing battle against spam and deceptive ads and offers running inside applications, Facebook has terminated their business relationship with two more networks who …
Twitter users troubled by locked accounts
If you have been using Twitter for a long enough time, chances are you have been locked out of it at least once. If you haven’t, you’ve probably seen tweets of …
Google Dashboard: What does Google know about you?
You’ve been using Gmail for ages. Every location you needed to find, every trip you organized – Google Maps was there for you. Most searches you ever started …
Backdoor access for millions of Facebook and MySpace accounts
Yvo Schaap, a young Dutch application developer on Facebook, stumbled on a back door into any user account that accesses the application he’s working on. He discovered …
Mac malware disguised as game
Symantec shared an uncommon Mac malware type on one of their official blogs: a combination of malware and a game similar to the once popular Space Invaders. They detected the …
Intelligence agency hit by DoS attacks
According to The Local, Sweden is seeing her share of cyber disruptions and attacks this last few days. First a technical error blocked access to hundreds of Swedish websites …
Malware writers target online gamers
Online games have been spared so far from massive amounts of malware, but things seem to change lately, as more and more malware writers concentrate their efforts on writing …