Google has been paying attention to its forums, which has been riddled with reports of Chrome falling victim to browser hijacking malware. Google responded with two new browser features. The first is a “reset browser settings” button. Under the “Advanced Settings” section you will find this button which will set your browser back to its…
After stealing $1.4 million using the TorRat Trojan 4 men were arrested by the Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit. The criminals used the Trojan to steal money from over 150 accounts. TorRat is designed to steal online banking credentials. The bank robbers were able to hide their activities by putting their command and control server on…
NSS Labs Inc. Put together their 2013 Browser Security Comparitive Analisys in the categories of Phishing Protection, Privacy and Socially Engineeres Malware. Tha analisys compares Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. NSSLabs rated Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as providing the best protection against malware and phishing attacks.They also determined that reputation technology of Google’s Chrome…
Malware embedded in microchips on small appliances and electronics may be lying in wait to infect your computer. Items like microwaves, toasters, irons, cell phones, dash board cameras and other such devices manufactured in China may be infected. Chips in small appliances shipped from China to Russia have been proven to be infected with malware.…
The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) took credit for hacking President Barack Obama’s Twitter and Facebook account. On Monday October 28th, for a short time, visitors to the President’s Facebook and Twitter page were re-directed to a 24 minute long pro Assad video titled “Syria facing terrorism.” The SEA Tweeted “Thank you Obama for redirecting people to…
Backdoor.Ploutus is malware transferred to ATMs. The malware was originally discovered by Symantec on September 4, 2013. At the time the malware was known to be isolated in Mexico. New evidence suggests the malware is on the move. The original source code uses Spanish for function names along with bad English grammar. This would indicate…
On October 23rd the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released their report “Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework” which is a guide for helping organizations improve their cybersecurity and respond to cybersecurity threats. The report is a response to Executive Order 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. NIST will take comments to the report from the public…
Lightbeam will reveal third-party companies tracking your browsing activities. In an effort to shine the lightbeam on who may be watching your online activity Mozilla, with the support the Ford Foundation, has released the free Firefox browser extension Lightbeam. The function of Lightbeam is to reveal to you first and third party sites you ineract…
The investment research firm Muddy Waters LLC released a report on their investigation of the Chinese mobile security company NQ Mobile Inc., an NYSE traded company (NQ), charging they are a “massive fraud.” The report alleges 72% of their 2012 revenues is fictitious. That NQ’s market share is 1.5%, not the 55% they claim. Muddy Waters…
Yesterday in our article php.net Blacklisted By Google Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of php, claimed Google reported a false positive. Today however php.net admits two of their servers were compromised with malicous JavaScript code. From October 22nd thru the 24th the two servers infected php.net visitors committing code to projects hosted on svn.php.net or git.php.net with malicous JavaScript code.…
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