On Tuesday, South Korea raised the country’s cyber security alarm from level 1 to 3, because of several incidents that affected different government and news websites in South Korea. One of the several attacks related to the June 25 security incident involved the compromise of the auto-update mechanism related to the legitimate installer file SimDisk.exe, […]
Yesterday, Facebook users may have noticed an influx of their friends posting about something called Facebook Black. Figure 1. Facebook photo plugging “Faecbook” Black (notice the typo in this image) Similar to previous scams, users are tagged in a picture that contains a link to an external website. In this case, the link is found within the […]
Friday, February 1st: Twitter announced it was hacked. The post (Keeping our users secure) by Bob Lord, Director of Information Security, was sparse on details but recommended disabling Java’s browser plugin. And according to Lord, the attackers “were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked.” Friday, February […]
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