In a blog post from Monday, 3 November, 2014 researchers in Fortinet announce that they have recently come across a new version of the notorious Backoff PoS malware, called ROM. The new version is a very precise compared to the…
Security researchers warn that an unpatched flaw in some of the earlier versions of OS X and Yosemite lets criminals take over the compromised machine. The escalation vulnerability dubbed Rootpipe allows the hackers to gain root access to the affected…
A malicious email claiming to be from Windows Outlook message informs users about mailbox infection with the C93 virus. The email is supposed to scare the receiver and lure him into following the link that will provide him with the…
Security experts with Bitdefender warn about a new wave of Rovnix Trojan infections targeting confidential information. Over 130 000 computers have been compromised in the UK so far. Analysts label this campaign as one of the most successful ones in…
A new tool for security network testing called Nogotofail, was released by Google yesterday. It is open-sourced and intended for users who wish to contribute to the Internet security improvement. It is designed to strengthen weak TLS connections and check…
Over 560 Internet crime complaints regarding spam e-mails, receiving have been filed in the USA IC3 Internet Crime Complaint Center on November 3 this year. The complaints consists of that a lot of E-ZPass users – a system, combining more…
Users who have visited the music news website spin.com two weeks ago and didn’t have the latest patches may have become victims to a drive-by download attack delivered through a RIG exploit kit. The moment the exploit kit discovers a…
Experts report that the number of computers infected with Poweliks Trojan has been growing recently. The primary distribution technique at the moment is through spam, but the cyber criminals are using other methods as well. Details on the Poweliks Trojan…
Despite all warnings, it seems impossible to get college kids to stop using Snapchat. A firm that delivers services only to users with email addresses ending on .edu called Sumpto, has recently released a report announcing that over 100 000…
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…
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…
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…
