App piracy is hurting Android developers
App downloads in the U.S. are booming to the tune of 40 apps per user per year, according to the Yankee Group. However, not all platforms are participating equally in the …
Blackhat SEO spam is a global problem
If you have wondered whether to switch your go-to search engine for another – perhaps more localized? – in order to avoid the seemingly ubiquitous poisoned search …
Mozilla, Tor Project, Yahoo targeted through DigiNotar attack
Following the admission that the rogue SSL certificate that allowed attackers to impersonate Google was missed by auditors and that several dozen other certificates were …
Google blacklisted 247 additional DigiNotar certificates?
New versions of Chrome and Firefox have been released today by Google and Mozilla due to the discovery of a rogue Google SSL certificate being abused in the wild. DigiNotar …
Rogue Google SSL certificate missed by auditors
VASCO Data Security International – the owner of DigiNotar, the Dutch Certificate Authority who issued the rogue SSL certificate for *.google.com domains that has …
Rogue Google SSL certificate allowed MITM Gmail attacks
Recently discovered attempts of an SSL man-in-the-middle attack against Google users – spotted by a number of Iranian Internet users – have revealed that Dutch …
Google servers as a DDoS tool
Google’s servers can be used by cyber attackers to launch DDoS attacks, claims R00T_ATI, a penetration tester for Italian security consulting firm AIR Sicurezza. He …
Google search results much cleaner than in 2010
It used to be that among the first ten pages of search results for popular terms, up to 90 percent of the offered links would take the users to a malicious page serving …
Malware targeting Android jumps 76 percent
The amount of malware targeted at Android devices jumped 76 percent since last quarter, to become the most attacked mobile operating system, according to McAfee. 2011 has also …
Google+ introduces verified accounts
Google is adding another feature that should guarantee that a Google+ profile corresponds with the actual real-life identity of a user. “We’re starting to roll out …
Trojanized Android app intercepts messages to hide costly subscriptions
Another trojanized Android app that monitors received text messages for keywords has been uncovered by Trend Micro, and this time, the feature is not used for spying but to …
Keeping abreast of Web malware delivery techniques
One of the crucial things that Google must do to keep making Internet users use its search engine is to keep an eye on the many ways that cyber criminals employ to spread …