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- Dangerous QR code comes with spam emails - Recently, researchers revealed a new type of spam which appears to be a test for mobile phone users. Researchers want to know how people will react to this social engineering attempts on their smartphones and tablets. January 12, 2012
- New year for Facebook - a Ramnit worm - A dangerous Ramnit worm was designed to steal financial data and to infect various files. It has been around since April of 2010 and now Ramnit started to steal Facebook login credentials. January 6, 2012
- Spam email about Kim Jong-il's death leads to malware - Since news of North Korean leader's Kim Jong-il death was announced, cybercriminals started use it for their malicious intentions. Usually they spread fake and malicious message which was done at this time as well. December 20, 2011
- Major flaw of Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x is patched - Adobe released Tuesday patch for vulnerability that was found earlier in Reader and Acrobat 9.x. Attack due to Adobe was aimed towards Reader 9.x using malformed PDF documents that were attached to fictitious emails. December 16, 2011
- Be careful! Facebook worm dropping malware - Danish security firm CSIS has discovered the latest Facebook worm that infecting accounts with malware. This major worm makes rounds and infects accounts or spams out the users' friends with a message that contains only a link within. November 30, 2011
- From „White hat“ Charlie Miller was turned to „Black hat“ - On Monday, Apple researcher Charlie Miller was punished for finding flaw in Apple's restrictions on code signing on iOS devices which would allow hackers to use applications sneaked into the Application Store to download and run unsigned code. November 9, 2011
- Mac OS X hit by mysterious Tsunami - Tsunami Trojan is the latest Mac scam and first Mac OS X malware based on Linux flaw. This trojan is derived from earlier created Linux-infecting backdoor Kaiten Trojan which was based on phone calls to IRC channel via infected systems. October 27, 2011
- The Kelihos botnet is down but Macs are still in danger - This week was big enough for Microsoft and Kaspersky because of the shutdown of the Kelihos botnet. It was widely discussed because Microsoft was able to initiate an individual defendant in their US court case this time. September 29, 2011
- Spam still used for compromising organizations - It is not surprising that spam emails may be a hint in a bigger breach of data that was done in December 2010 of the Atlanta-based Silverpop Systems. Back then there were numerous emails that compromised 100 big companies and then used to organize phishin September 27, 2011
- Phishing email has been found which caused RSA breach - In March, RSA Company said they have been hacked and suffered a breach and data loss following an "extremely sophisticated cyber attack." August 30, 2011
- Twitter "Stalkers app" phishing scam is on the wild - The Stalkers application is another Twitter phishing scam which was recently noticed by security researchers. August 12, 2011
- Patch Tuesday fixes 22 flaws - Microsoft has released 13 patches for 22 vulnerabilities. Two of 13 patches are rated a top ranking of critical on Microsoft‘s rating scale. These two are of the most dangerous and the rest of 13 are identified as second highest rating and moderate ones. August 11, 2011
- How malware gets installed in your PCs and Macs? - Many people think that computers are infected by visiting websites or opening e-mails. Mac community believes that Windows are insecure by their nature. By their opinion with no support large numbers of computers are infected just by clicking on fraudulen June 23, 2011
- New IE bug may expose your cookies - Recently, security researcher has discovered unpatched flaw in IE that can be used for stealing Facebook accounts’ credentials and other web pages that are compromised by this attack. May 31, 2011
- 73 flaws have been patched by Oracle - Oracle released a Critical Patch Update for its various products. An update patches 73 vulnerabilities of Oracle artifact portfolio. April 26, 2011
- Secret is not revealed but Facebook’s flaw is repaired - Recently Turkish security researcher Serkan Gencel discovered a flaw that created a mechanism for cybercriminals to support Facebook passwords for user’s hotmail account as well. April 14, 2011
- Japan’s tragedy is already used by spammers - With this Japan tragedy and of all Earth people concern about this nation, spammers seem to be not concerned at all. They even try to use people’s vulnerability against themselves at this delicate time. March 16, 2011
- Spam takes over social networks and mobiles - As email spam start to decrease researchers are discussing the reasons of this phenomenon. It seems like spammers are more concentrated to spreading spam on social networks and mobile channels. January 10, 2011
- Adobes’s sandbox is not bulletproof - Recently, Billy Rios, a Google security researcher, published a method of how he had broken in Adobe's sandbox which was created to prevent attacks of hackers. January 7, 2011
- Reader X is finally released - Today is the day when Adobe released its new product called Reader X which contains a “sandbox” feature. This new version of the program is also available for Mac OS X and Android, however, those editions lack the sandbox. November 19, 2010
