An unknown hacker, who goes by the name of ‘DERP’, recent began targeting many popular video-game websites with Distributed Denial of…
Month: December 2013
Give a Doge a Coin
Well, it’s happened. The internet is just a few steps away from becoming a sentient being, given life and value by…
Vulnerability Found in Samsung’s Galaxy S4
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University’s security lab (BGU) discovered a vulnerability in the Samsung Galaxy S4’s Knox architecture. If exploited, the attacker…
Typo Trouble in Bitcoin Land
Mt. Gox, the “World’s Largest Bitcoin exchange” might be where you want to go if you’re dabbling in Bitcoin. However, there…
A Tumblr of trouble
Like many other social networking sites, Tumblr is a hot spot for malware infections, spam and other security issues. I thought…
Google Axed Android’s App Ops
One feature that could set Android apart from other mobile operating systems is to deny permissions of individual apps. Doing so…
Bug bounties and the price of security
In a recent article on the NSS Security blog, Stefan Frei discusses a potential standard for bug bounty programs and how it could…
Browser Ransomware hides behind CloudFlare, smartens payment system
We’ve covered the browser-based ransomware several times before on this blog, ever since it appeared back in July and again each…
Fake Tumblr Extension Harvests Tumblr Logins and More
If you’re a heavy user of Tumblr, you may well have run into their daily posting limit which based on the…
Target US Stores Suffer Massive Data Breach UPDATED
Update:01/13 – Target CEO and President Gregg Steinhaffel confirmed in an interview with CNBC that the store’s PoS (point-of-sale) terminals were infected…