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…
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…
Josh Pitts with Leviathan Security discovered an ”exit node” for the TOR network that is currently located in Russia and has been used to distribute a modified version of the legitimate code that the user has requested. In order to…
In June 2013 Yahoo decided to reset accounts which have been latent for a period of 12 or more months. The company further announced that it will give the accounts to other users, which provoked various privacy and security questions.…
Apple Pay method is a new way for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus users to purchase goods and services without disclosing their debit or credit cards or any other bank information to merchants, thus remaining anonymous. All the users…
Created in 2007, Pawn Storm is the name of a cyber-espionage operation whose main aim is targeting military, governments and media entities. The name Pawn Storm comes from a chess action where the pawns are organized into a massive defense…
A glitch in the design code of the NeedMyTranscript.com web-site discovered recently appears to disclose the personal information of almost 100,000 of its visitors to anyone who enters a specific internal directory of the site. The directory was not supposed…
Twicth.tv is a web-site platform created to connect gamers throughout all over the world. Twict.tv helps gamers connect, chat and communicate no matter where they play games from. It was recently discovered that the site has a relatively good fake…
A new zero-day flaw has been actively exploited by cyber-criminals, targeting primarily users on workstations and servers who open files with embedded OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) objects. At the moment, the vulnerability is exploited via PowerPoint files. OLE objects…
A payload for altering the DNS settings of home routers is being delivered through a malicious advertisement inserted in a big online advertising network. The definition for malvertising is an attack in which the cyber criminals take advantage of third-party…
In a security advisory released yesterday, Microsoft has warned about a just-discovered vulnerability of all Windows systems due to security hack attacks. The threat is found in the Windows Object Linking function (OLE). The function is developed so users can…
Google have announced yesterday that they are expanding their security verification methods with one more – a USB stick security key acting as a 2-step verification method for users to log into web-sites when using the Google Chrome browser. The…
