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The relaxing atmosphere of surfing at the beach, however, makes it easy to forget about the sharks. Connecting to an unsecured network poses serious …

The spam comes in the form of an email supposedly from CNN. The subject line is "CNN: Forbes: Angelina Jolie tops list of highest-paid actresses" and…

SCADA systems used on oil rigs and other areas of the oil industry are using outdated networking protocols that can easily be compromised, SCADA expe…

After nearly six years, CZ.NIC has updated the design of the Association’s main websites. Receiving a new graphic design are www.nic.cz, the CZ.NIC L…

Microsoft has announced an expansion of a program that shares information with selected security firms. The time to threat data before the company pa…

The fact that it is possible to hack the car was confirmed by two security researches on Toyota Prius. Prius is believed to be one of the most high-t…

Whenever there's a big news story, scammers and cyberthieves are quick to take advantage of Internet users' curiosity in order to plant malware on th…

Symantec discovered two mobile apps that were infected by an attacker, which are legitimate applications used to help find and make doctor appointmen…

Berlin-based Security Research Labs found the way how to make SIM cards vulnerable to cyber attacks without leaving any evidence and noticing the use…

Eastern European countries filled the top three slots of a list of nations that have IP addresses known to be sources of spam. List is dominated by B…

Policies are useful, but without enforcement, they are not a successful means of preventing malware invasions and the theft of business information.

A staffer with the Elecontric Frontier Foundation is warning that Google Android's "Back up my data" feature sends WiFi passwords and other private i…

A number of applications that harmlessly use the MasterKey vulnerability have been spotted on Google Play.

In this paper we will analyze the features of the new suite of internet protocols, its advantages and disadvantages, as well as the possible implicat…

Technically, this scam is fairly straightforward. It "locks" computer screens by sending users to a website designed to look like an official FBI web…

Mac users should think twice before downloading PDFs of uncertain origin: A new bit of spyware — under the guise "RecentNews.ppa.pdf" — is actually a…

A Clickjacking vulnerability existed on LinkedIn that allowed an attacker to trick users for sharing and posting links on behalf of victim.

Yesterday, Tuesday 9 July, it came to light that a number of SIDN websites had been infected by malware or had been otherwise compromised. In another…

Google and Microsoft are at each other's throats again. In a recent statement, Microsoft says hackers have been actively exploiting a vulnerability t…

"Priyanka" is a fairly common Indian name, but if you fall victim to a new Android infection, it could become disturbingly prevalent in your contacts…

HP's security response team has released a fix to address the backdoor vulnerability in its StoreOnce backup systems disclosed late last month by an …

The biggest security threat banks faces — malware that pervades their online and mobile banking users' devices — is being met by an increasingly soph…

Proof-of-concept code for exploiting a Google Android master key vulnerability that can be used to Trojanize legitimate apps is making the round on t…

The Directive on attacks against information systems builds on rules that have been in force since 2005 (Council Framework Decision 2005/222/JHA). Wh…

The patch that will get the most news attention is likely to be CVE-2013-3660, which is a memory management problem in win32k.sys – the Windows Kerne…

Darkleech is back. Or maybe it never left. Either way, it's a growing problem. A campaign that forces sites running the Apache Web server to install …

If you're a Mac user and watch video files on your computer, consider downloading Apple's Security Update 2013-003 sooner rather than later. A vulner…

Mobile security company Bluebox said today that it recently discovered a vulnerability in Android that makes any Android device released in the last …

To address the growing needs of developers to build high quality sites, HTML5 has relaxed some of the restrictions which were placed earlier by the S…

Game publisher Ubisoft was breached and unauthorized parties accessed customers’ usernames, e-mail addresses and hashed passwords. Ubisoft urges all …

Phone thieves might be able to bypass lockscreens on Android devices, thanks to a flaw in Skype for Android.

The recently discovered Android malware - dubbed USB Cleaver, is able to compromise the victim’s mobile and also infects his PC stealing sensitive in…

Italian security researcher Rosario Valotta has discovered — or rather, rediscovered — a trick that would let cybercriminals alter aspects of your co…

Last article from series about internet security is dedicated to some situations which you can face as administrator of medium-sized network. CSIRT.C…

The hacker “fin1te” revealed that Facebook account was hackable within a minute simply with an SMS.

A new report from Google suggests that malware infections from malevolent "attack sites," which intentionally distribute harmful software, are relati…

Famed author George Orwell was born on June 25, 1903, and two Dutch artists decided that the best way to celebrate his birthday was with party hats —…

Norwegian browser maker Opera Software has confirmed that a targeted internal network infrastructure attack led to the theft of a code signing certif…

Attacks-as-a-Service, Malware-as-a-Service and Fraud-as-a-Service - all are terms used to better qualify the complex evolution of cybercrime offer.

Car hacking is one of the effect of the massive introduction of technology in our vehicles, a hacker that gain access to our transport is an event th…

Adventurers in the online game "World of Warcraft" generally have to worry about bandits and dragons, but their most dangerous threat this week comes…

Getting your text messages delivered to your PC or tablet sounds pretty convenient, until a hacker uses that text-forwarding feature to hijack your G…

Over the last several days, weeks really for some, people have noticed an uptick in the amount of spam coming from compromised Yahoo! accounts. But t…

Joomla is one of the most popular CMS which gives ease of installation, handling and managing your web application. And so being obvious is used in m…

Researchers at FireEye have spotted a malware campaign using Google Docs to redirect victims and evade callback detection mechanisms.

If you use your iPhone as a mobile hotspot, a hacker could probably get into it in less than a minute. By default, iOS 6 generates randomized passwor…

In today's hot day, perhaps we can afford something funny. It is video, which could be projected to internet users as educational.

Java is not the safest software that users can install, as evidenced by the 40 flaws patched in its latest update. Users should install Java 7, Updat…

Android.Obad.A is equipped with an array of malicious functions including sending SMS to premium-rate numbers, entering commands in the device consol…

Experts from security research company SkyCure have uncovered a security vulnerability in the carrier configuration settings of some iPhones that cou…