Attack
Android smartphones are infected!
Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- Malware is a real rising threat for smartphone owners who uses the Android operating system. Apparently, a lot of the Android applications have a pretty severe leakage problem. A security firm Dasient...
Travelodge customer data stolen
Travelodge UK is investigating an apparent hacking attack on its customer database. The hotel chain issued a warning to users of its online service to be on the lookout for spam e-mails. Full details of the security breach were not immediately available...
Hacker group Anonymous denies Sony attack
Online vigilante group Anonymous has denied being behind an attack that led to the theft of personal data from around 77 million PlayStation users. The secretive "hacker collective" had earlier been singled-out by Sony as the possible guilty...
PlayStation outage caused by hacking attack
Sony has confirmed that a hacking attack was to blame for its PlayStation Network being taken offline. The company said that it had taken the PSN down voluntarily while it investigated an "external intrusion". The system is still unavailable...
Sites hit in massive web attack
Hundreds of thousands of websites appear to have been compromised by a massive cyber attack. The hi-tech criminals used a well-known attack vector that exploits security loopholes on other sites to insert a link to their website. Those visiting the...
Spotify ads hit by malware attack
Spotify has apologised to users after an advertisement containing a virus was displayed to some users of the music-streaming service. The advertisement, which appeared within Spotify's Windows desktop software, did not need to be clicked on in order...
Gawker hack triggers password resets at major sites
Millions of web users are being asked to reset their passwords as concerns spread over a major hacking attack. Yahoo, Twitter and LinkedIn have asked users to change their details, days after gossip site Gawker was hacked. Online game World of Warcraft...
Security flaw discovered in German digital ID card software
One day after its release, the software used to read new German ID cards is shown to be vulnerable to attack. The Federal Office for Information Security has removed links to the program from its website. Jan Schejbal, a German computer security...
Stalking, much easier now with geotagging
By Stela Roman So, we complain about Facebook privacy issues. We blame it on being so shameless and not caring about it's users. But let's look at those users. What are they doing to protect their privacy? Are they really thinking about the risks when...
YouTube hacked because of Justin Bieber: It's your fault!
By Stela Roman On Independence Day YouTube has become the target of a hacker attack, specifically targeting videos of the new american pop singer Justin Bieber. It sounds like Bieber fever is getting dangerous! Shortly after the incident Google explained...
