One of the interesting topics, presented on the Black Hat Europe Conference 2014 conducted in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, between 14 – 17 October this year was how hackers could get around Android package (APK) protection changing the input and output…
As PC users, we are doing everything in the web browsers and this would have been wonderful if the cyber attackers, advertisers and scammers have not been trying to get their code in the browsers that we use. This is…
As hackers keep on targeting the online advertising world, which is considered the back of the Internet economy, more and more online brands are facing the need to eliminate the hoax of malvertising. A fresh example for such action is…
The creators of Asprox botnet are sending spam emails promising a free Starbucks gift card in order to expand the capacity of the botnet. The main purpose of the spam campaign is to enlarge the botnet, which has been known…
A spam e-mail that aims to increase the stock value of a Canadian penny stock company has been delivered to numerous users last week. As a result of the campaign, the transaction volume increased significantly. The company in question is…
Google researchers Bodo Möller, Thai Duong & Krzysztof Kotowicz announced yesterday that they have recently discovered Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption, known as POODLE, to be attacking the SSL 3.0 version of the public-encryption key introduced by Microsoft back…
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…
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.…
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…
