Techno News

26.03.2015
China promises to mitigate Internet censorship during the Olympics if it gets chosen as a venue
In winter of 2022 Chinese might get two weeks of Internet freedom

26.03.2015
British top managers have no idea that insurance against cyber attacks exists
The UK government encourages insurers to take care of businessmen’s cyber security

25.03.2015
Video service Twitch suffered a hacker attack
Twitch’s management changed users’ passwords

25.03.2015
One third of all popular websites are risky
Even reliable and proven webpages present a threat for visitors

24.03.2015
Islamic State hackers published a list of 100 American service members and encouraged to kill them
The US Defense Department denies data breach

24.03.2015
A new sophisticated malware that attacks point of sale terminals was discovered
After “Zeus” “PoSeidon” was added to the list of malware

23.03.2015
“White hat” hackers earned almost half a million dollars in prizes
Traditional hacking competition Pwn2Own ended in Vancouver

23.03.2015
Another vulnerability of Adobe Flash Player added to Nuclear exploit kit
Hackers are increasing the speed of “cyber arms race”

20.03.2015
More than a half of all companies do not check mobile apps used for work
82% of IT professionals do not trust mobile apps for security

20.03.2015
The number of financial attacks on Android users tripled over the past year
Kaspersky Lab experts have analyzed financial threats that users faced in 2014

19.03.2015
Google will involve a “team of experts” in the evaluation of apps in Google Play
Google stopped relying on automatic app analysis only

19.03.2015
More than 1200 popular Android apps are vulnerable to FREAK
The total number of vulnerable apps downloads exceeds 6 billion

18.03.2015
Three British judges were fired for watching Internet porn «in the workplace»
The media is outraged not so much because of the offense but because of the technical illiteracy of the Themis servants

18.03.2015
Another large American insurance company reported a major data breach
Hackers could have gained access to personal and financial information of 11 million people

17.03.2015
Facebook reported that the number of government data requests have increased
Authorities of the US and India are interested in the users of the social network more than any other government

17.03.2015
FREAK vulnerability has reached BlackBerry
The company promises that it will soon release the updates to fix the problem

16.03.2015
The US State Department eliminates the consequences of «Russian hackers» attack
Last weekend part of the US State Department computer systems was shut down for maintenance work

16.03.2015
Yahoo offered its users an «on-demand» password
«Two-factor authentication, without the first factor»

13.03.2015
The US Senate Committee approved a bill that requires companies to report information about security breaches
Critics tend to consider the bill to be one more instrument to spy on Americans

13.03.2015
71% of the enterprises and organizations were successfully attacked last year
The number of companies that fell victims to hackers grows each year