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How Not to DDoS Your Former Employer 21 Aug 2013 | 08:40 am
Pro tip: If you’re planning to launch a debilitating denial-of-service attack against your former employer, try not to “like” the Facebook page of the DDoS-for-hire Web service that you intend to use ...
A Closer Look: Perkele Android Malware Kit 19 Aug 2013 | 09:19 am
In March 2013 I wrote about Perkele, a crimeware kit designed to create malware for Android phones that can help defeat multi-factor authentication used by many banks. In this post, we’ll take a close...
Washington Post Site Hacked After Successful Phishing Campaign 16 Aug 2013 | 12:28 am
The Washington Post acknowledged today that a sophisticated phishing attack against its newsroom reporters led to the hacking of its Web site, which was seeded with code that redirected readers to the...
Personalized Exploit Kit Targets Researchers 15 Aug 2013 | 10:01 pm
As documented time and again on this blog, cybercrooks are often sloppy or lazy enough to leave behind important clues about who and where they are. But from time to time, cheeky crooks will dream up ...
Buying Battles in the War on Twitter Spam 14 Aug 2013 | 05:48 pm
The success of social networking community Twitter has given rise to an entire shadow economy that peddles dummy Twitter accounts by the thousands, primarily to spammers, scammers and malware purveyor...
Microsoft Patches Plug 23 Security Holes 14 Aug 2013 | 01:26 am
Microsoft has issued security updates to fix at least 23 distinct vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. Three of the patch bundles released today address flaws rated “cr...
Simple Hack Threatens Outdated Joomla Sites 12 Aug 2013 | 08:10 pm
If you run a site powered by the Joomla content management system and haven’t yet applied a critical update for this software released less than two weeks ago, please take a moment to do that: A trivi...
$1.5 million Cyberheist Ruins Escrow Firm 7 Aug 2013 | 09:03 am
A $1.5 million cyberheist against a California escrow firm earlier this year has forced the company to close and lay off its entire staff. Meanwhile, the firm’s remaining money is in the hands of a co...
Firefox Zero-Day Used in Child Porn Hunt? 5 Aug 2013 | 05:13 am
A claimed zero-day vulnerability in Firefox 17 has some users of the latest Mozilla Firefox browser (Firefox 22) shrugging their shoulders. Indeed, for now it appears that this flaw is not a concern f...
Pavel Vrublevsky Sentenced to 2.5 Years 3 Aug 2013 | 04:19 am
Pavel Vrublevsky, the owner of Russian payments firm ChronoPay and the subject of an upcoming book by this author, was sentenced to two-and-half years in a Russian penal colony this week after being f...
