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.
Vulnerabilities are Coming from the CMS Plug-Ins The content management systems are in the focus of the cyber criminals due to the availability of plug-ins, large attack surfaces themes and extensions. The news reports in the last few months revealed…
In a statement, published on 10 October this year, Kmart Company President Alasdair James acknowledged that the company has been recently a subject of a hack attack. On 9 October, 2014 Kmart’s IT team discovered their PoS (Point-of-Sale) systems to…
A few days ago 14IE flows have been closed. In September the IT specialists warned that the Aurora Panda/DeputyDog actor has lost its IE 0day for being patched and that as found unusual. In October several other vulnerabilities have been…
In the last month or so, malware researchers from Trend Micro have been observing malicious ads, a part of which were displayed on YouTube that have redirected over 113 000 users to harmful webpages. Reportedly the cyber crooks have managed…
A new post release by an unknown hacker group in the text sharing Pastebin site today states that they have managed to steal more than 6 million user credentials from the famous share-cloud service Dropbox. The statement also says that…
GameOver Zeus, a botnet designed to infect systems and steal their banking credentials, was detected to have compromised vogue.com, according to URLquery.net, a website for detecting and analysing malware. The Department of Justice and the FBI managed to disrupt the…
Cache of about 13 gigabytes of pictures, some of them of nude and underage users, leaked out in the free web on Thursday night. Most of them were posted into the 4Chan imageboard website. The cache came from the photo…
The review for the best smartphone for October 2014 will cover six devices. Below will be enumerated all the positive and negative elements in each smartphone model, so that the customers can make an information based choice. APPLE – iPhone…
The cyber criminals are getting more and more inventive. They are making different attempts to disguise the malware they have created and present it as useful application. Gomal developers however, went an extra mile when creating the new mobile Trojan.…
It is exactly what the name shows – a folder full of files that are only needed temporary on your computer. And as these files are not always erased as soon as they have fulfilled their task, the Temp folder…
A flaw in the filtering process of account restrictions via the mobile API makes blocked accounts accessible without any additional security details requested. The typical security technique for such cases is to block the account and require an answer to…
New Microsoft Releases Are Coming Out Next Week Next week Microsoft will release a new set of patches ever since dissolving its Trustworthy Computing group in early September this year. Formed in the early 2000s as a response to all…
A new Facebook scam lures users with a private video of the actress Emma Watson but injects a load of Trojans in the compromised computers instead. It is the same old story – the user gets a message about the…
The reported in late June Selfmite.b SMS worm for Android, created to use affiliate marketing for making money, has been spotted to have a new, more aggressive scheme for its purposes than the earlier version. The spreading method uses the…
Security researchers at Proofpoint recently published “Analysis of a Cybercrime Infrastructure,” where they revealed the Qbot botnet has infected 500,000 systems and sniffed 800,000 banking transactions. 59% of these transactions are from accounts from five of the largest banks in…
159 security issues have been discovered and fixed for the new, now more stable version of Google Chrome. The combination of IPC (Inter-Process Communication) and V8 vulnerabilities is among the most striking of the bugs discovered on Google Chrome. It…
Currently, the PC users made a big fuss about the keylogging and the rest of the “spying” capabilities of Windows 10 recently released version of the Technical Preview. The IT specialists confirm that the claim is true, stating however that…
The popular online tool Bugzilla for bug-tracking and bug-testing underwent critical security vulnerability. The situation with the tool is now sorted out, however the users are advised to update immediately to new releases. Cyber criminals who manage to exploit the…
On Tuesday, the broadcasting of the Australian television news channel ABC News 24 was suspended for 30 min. The channel went dark after an attack from ransomware with encryption capabilities. As a result from the attack, the service broadcasting had…
A note on the Facebook Security Page posted on October 3, informs the public that the administrators of the social media are putting all efforts to eliminate the “fake likes” practice that is enjoying great popularity lately. It is a…
