On January 26, for around one hour, man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks were launched against Chinese users who attempted to access GitHub.
According to GreatFire.org, the attacks most likely came in response to a petition made on the previous day on the website of the US White House. The petition asks the Obama ... |
31 January 2013
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Over the past period, security researcher Gaurang Pandya has been studying the way Nokia handles data traffic and he has identified some interesting things. The expert has found that when the Nokia browser is used, all the traffic is redirected to Nokia/Ovi proxy servers. Moreover, after further analysis, Pandya det... |
11 January 2013
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Most major browser vendors – including Mozilla, Microsoft and Google – are rushing to block the certificates issued by Turkish certificate authority TURKTRUST. The company admitted that it erroneously issued intermediate certificates instead of normal site certificates back in August 2011.
The main conce... |
4 January 2013
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On December 21, Facebook released the 1.1.2 version of the Facebook Camera app for iOS to address a vulnerability that allowed cybercriminals to hijack user accounts by launching man-in-the-middle attacks.
Egyptian security researcher and CEO of Attack-Secure Mohamed Ramadan – the one who identified and report... |
27 December 2012
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It’s a known fact that cybercriminals often rely on man-in-the-browser (MitB) attacks to steal highly sensitive data from unsuspecting internauts. However, experts found that they took these operations to the next level with Universal Man-in-the-Browser (uMitB) attacks.
MitB attacks are utilized to collect the... |
5 October 2012
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At the beginning of May, the FBI revealed that a man from Georgia, along with a number of accomplices, admitted to stealing more than $1.3 million (1 million EUR) after phishing the credentials of unsuspecting Internet users.
The cybercriminals defrauded people by creating web pages that replicated the legitimate si... |
10 May 2012
03:59 GMT |
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