Operational Security, or OPSEC, is the very core of running any kind of clandestine operations, be it a government or a…
Month: January 2014
Facebook bug bounty program pays highest reward to date
Facebook awarded its highest bug bounty to date to a Brazilian Security Engineer Reginaldo Silva, yesterday. The bounty, an estimated total of…
WhatsApp gets Rogue Download Page
WhatsApp is one of the most popular mobile apps today and is frequently targeted by malware, hackers and copycats. So it’s…
Twitter Spam Rides Again: Keeping Your Account Safe
Over the last few days, I’ve seen a number of Twitter accounts belonging to both people in the security community and…
Fake Picasa Mails Lead to Viagra Spam Sites
Fake Picasa emails are currently landing in mailboxes, which carry a message potentially irresistible to some even accounting for the “This…
No Man’s Sky Beta: Fake
Hello Games, creators of upcoming procedurally generated space adventure No Man’s Sky, sounded the alarm on a fake Beta website. No need…
Malicious Acquisition vs Moral Development
As much as we want to imagine the cybercrime underground as a dark alley full of sneaky types dressed in ski…
Musical Bitcoin Bubbles Serve Java Applets, Malware
What is it? An extremely relaxing yet rather malicious URL which will play soothing chimes of music as it offers up…
DissidentX a Steganography Tool From Bittorrent Creator
Bram Cohen, better known for bringing us the BitTorrent protocol, much maligned as public opinion more often than not associates it with piracy,…
Revealed: POS Malware Used in Target Attack
Security journalist Brian Krebs revealed details yesterday surrounding the malware sample used in the Target cyber-attacks, which originally took place November 27…