Berta is a dedicated malware researcher, dreaming for a more secure cyber space. Her fascination with IT security began a few years ago when a malware locked her out of her own computer.
A 20-year-old Austrian penetration tester claims that the credentials of Sony Playstation Network users might not be safe due to a blind SQL injection vulnerability in the website. Aria Akhavan explains that the bug could let attackers collect information from…
On October, 31 last week Facebook announced that they are making the network directly accessible for users as a Tor Hidden Service. What Tor does is offering anonymity for users offering and using different web-services over the Internet. Connecting to…
Experts have detected a new file-encrypting ransomware, dubbed SuperCrypt, in the middle of October this year. Like another popular ransomware like CryptoWall and CryptoLocker, the recently reported SuperCrypt encrypts certain files on the compromised computer and displays a ransom message…
Microsoft had taken a decision to launch the new edition of Office for Mac in the second half of 2015. This will most probably result in the company’s extended support for the Office for Mac 2011. On the last Friday…
A new way to infect computers with malicious software has been found by Wade Williamson, a security researcher in the Shape Security startup company. What he says is that this attack is actually a similar version of the Remote Access…
Companies cannot manage to patch up their processes in the wake of Bash vulnerability. Security experts have issued two warnings regarding new malicious attacks associated with Shellshock, as they observe a rapidly growing number of cybercriminals who take advantage of…
In Six Weeks Time Google Are Releasing New Version of Their Browser to Prevent Relying on a Bug in the SSL 3.0 Certificate. As we wrote earlier this month Google discovered a flow in the SSL 3.0 certificate of web-sites…
Numerous industrial control systems (ICS) in the USA were compromised in a malicious campaign using a version of the BalckEnergy toolkit that was launched at least three years ago. The HMI products of Advantech/Broadwin WebAccess, GE Cimplicity and Siemens WinCC…
Hackers use spam messages quite often as a malware distribution path. The malicious files are usually delivered to the user as attachments or links to a download location. Researchers report that most of the fraudulent emails sent is September, were…
The Instagram account of Telethon, a 2-day-charity-event in West Australia raising funds for children, was taken over by an unidentified person. The sum raised this year is $22.2million. Just after the end of the event, the official Instagram profile of…
Microsoft Research Team has detected a spike in a piece of system-locking ransomware similar to Cryptolocker, dubbed Crowti. Crowti has been around for a few months now, but researchers have noticed its activities in mid-October. In the peak of the…
With the approaching release of Android 5.0 Lollipop version Goggle promises some extra security features, described in a blog from their Security Lead Engineer Adrian Ludwig posted on Tuesday. “From the moment you turn on a device running Android 5.0,…
The Abbott government in Australia is aiming to present new online children safety law to Parliament by the end of this year. In a speech from Tuesday this week Paul Fletcher, the Parliamentary Secretary for Communications, revealed some more details…
The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has issued a warning on Monday about a malicious email campaign delivering the Dyre banking Trojan, aka Dyreza. The malicious messages were detected in the middle of the month, and there is no…
Many users were asking themselves whether they can download maps on their cellphones when they have internet connection and use them when they have no Internet access. The questions were raised as there is no cellphone coverage everywhere and often…
When it comes to the highlights of the day, cybercriminals get quite creative. Ebola-themed malware campaigns are gaining popularity these days. One of the most impressive ones is a tool that supposedly signals the users in case there is an…
Releasing the new Linux Enterprise 12 operating system on 27 October this year, the German dealers of the system, SUSE Linux Enterprise announced that it distinguishes from the Linux Red Hat / Ubuntu packages as more reliable, stable and secure,…
Recently, a report criticizing Knox Technology’s password management and encryption functions in Samsung’s Note ad Galaxy mobile devices (Android-based) provoked a lot of replies and rebuttals. According to an advisory, that was published last week, a PIN selected during setup…
During the last week, Palo Alto Networks security researchers have noticed that Dridex, the latest version of the Cridex Trojan, a data stealer also known as Feodo, Bugat and Geodo has been activated to attack bank security information through embedding…
Dropbox announced the issue of ISO 27001 certificate, an addition to the serious list of compliances for Dropbox for Business. The new certificate includes 2013 revision of the standard certificate and has been updated and upgraded with the cloud services…
