May 8, 2014 3 min read May 8, 2014 Security Alerts Covert Redirect Security Flaw in Sites Using OAuth and OpenID Covert Redirect is a security flaw that affects websites that use the OAuth and OpenID identity verification systems. It is a problem, but it is not "the next Heartbleed."
May 7, 2014 4 min read May 7, 2014 Security Alerts Warning: Dropbox and Box File Sharing Security Bug Do you use Dropbox or Box to backup your most important files and share them with your co-workers or friends? If so, you might just be sharing them with somebody else you've never even met.
May 2, 2014 3 min read May 2, 2014 Security Alerts Hack Your Facebook Friends? More Like Hack Yourself. What if you could hack your friend's Facebook simply by pasting some code into your web-browser's console? A recent Facebook scam promises just that.
May 2, 2014 4 min read May 2, 2014 Security Alerts Warning: Don’t Get Vished A recent investigation has uncovered a large “vishing” campaign affecting an average of 250 people per day – potentially since October 2013.
May 1, 2014 1 min read May 1, 2014 Security Alerts IE Zero Day Update: Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch, Even for XP In response to the critical zero day vulnerability (CVE-2014-1776) currently affecting Internet Explorer, versions 6-11, Microsoft has issued an emergency patch. This patch will even apply to Windows XP.
Apr 30, 2014 4 min read Apr 30, 2014 Security Alerts New Sefnit Variant Adopts SSH to Commit Click Fraud There's a new variant of Sefnit in town, which has ditched the Tor anonymity network in favor of Secure Shell (SSH) network protocol to commit click fraud and mine for cryptocurrency.
Apr 29, 2014 3 min read Apr 29, 2014 Security Alerts Warning: Adobe Flash Zero Day CVE-2014-0515 Adobe Flash 13.0.0.182 and all earlier versions are vulnerable to a critical, zero day vulnerability and need to be updated to version 13.0.0.206.
Apr 28, 2014 2 min read Apr 28, 2014 Security Alerts Warning: Internet Explorer Zero Day CVE-2014-1776 A new zero day vulnerability that allows for remote execution of malicious code through Internet Explorer 6-11 is currently being exploited in the wild.
Apr 25, 2014 2 min read Apr 25, 2014 Mobile Malware Security Alerts BadLepricon Mobile Malware Mines for Bitcoin Gold ALERT: BadLepricon is a Bitcoin mining mobile malware on Google Play that propagates through Trojan downloads disguised as live wallpaper apps.
Apr 24, 2014 3 min read Apr 24, 2014 Security Alerts Warning: We Heart It Spreads Diet Pill Twitter Spam Thousands of tweets reading "If I didn’t try this my life wouldn’t have changed" have spread diet pill spam through compromised We Heart It accounts.
