Techno News

29.04.2014
Users of AOL email service should change their passwords
AOL corporation confirms breach of its free email service and users’ personal information being exposed

29.04.2014
Another critical vulnerability of Adobe Flash Player discovered
Adobe has released a cross-platform security update for Flash Player

28.04.2014
American court set a precedent by obligating companies to disclose information from the servers overseas
New York Magistrate Judge James Francis obliged Microsoft to disclose personal data of one of the users by request of law enforcement agencies, despite the fact that this information is stored on the server physically located overseas

28.04.2014
A dangerous vulnerability resides in all existing versions of Internet Explorer 6
Last weekend Microsoft acknowledged that its browser Internet Explorer 6 contains a dangerous vulnerability

25.04.2014
Service Viber doesn't encrypt data
Researchers from the University of Hew Haven published a report stating that service Viber, that allows users to make calls, exchange messages, photos and video (very similar to Whatsapp), does not encrypt sent and stored data

25.04.2014
Bitcoin-mining malware apps continue to infiltrate Google Play
The flagship app store for Android still isn't reliable and can’t protect its users

24.04.2014
Twitter hit by weight loss advertising
Since yesterday thousands of messages were delivered in Twitter advertising some unique method of weight loss

24.04.2014
Russian SMS trojan conquers America
“Kaspersky Lab” experts recorded the first case of activity of SMS trojan for Android devices in the US

23.04.2014
USA and Russia «compete» for the right to condemn a hacker
The United States and Russian Federation filed extradition requests aimed at a hacker Vladimir Drinkman to the prosecutor’s office of the Netherlands.

23.04.2014
Google will refund users who bought a fake antivirus
As reported earlier, in the beginning of April a Google Play app called “Virus Shield” hit the number one spot in the rating, but turned out to be fake.

23.04.2014
Codes written down on paper almost jeopardized Obama's visit to Japan
An unpleasant incident took place in the Tokyo Haneda airport right before the official visit of the US president Barack Obama to Japan.

23.04.2014
Verizon: two out of three of all data leaks were the result of weak passwords
Experts continue to reflect on the events of past year and to analyze the main threats in the area of cybersecurity that the world faced in 2013. One of the world’s largest technology companies Verizon has published its DBIR - Data Breach Investigations Report.

21.04.2014
Researchers ranked programming languages by vulnerabilities
WhiteHat Security presented results of the Website Security Statistics study for the first quarter of this year

21.04.2014
LaCie’s company website was compromised for a year
French company LaCie, that specializes in manufacture of external hard drives, usb-drives, monitors and other computer equipment, reported discovery of vulnerability on their webpage

18.04.2014
What do IT managers know?
TeamViewer GmbH, developer of popular software for remote monitoring and file exchange between computers, conducted a survey of 300 IT-managers of big and medium firms to find out how closely they monitor what employees do with their office computers

18.04.2014
Three million credit cards compromised after an attack on retail chain Michaels
Retail chain Michaels that specializes in art and hobby supplies and also interior design objects, reported discovery of a data leak

17.04.2014
«In order to receive updates, update your machines with the most recent update…»
Microsoft Corporation risks thoroughly confusing and annoying its users by making changes to the accepted practice of updates

17.04.2014
A really secure email service launches
German developer Felix Müller-Irion announced launching of an email service Lavaboom, that is supposedly protected against any type of attack, including NSA

17.04.2014
Eugene Kaspersky: Ukraine conflict harms international cybersecurity
During his presentation in San Francisco Kaspersky Lab CEO pointed out that Ukraine conflict might have negative implications on international cybersecurity

15.04.2014
German space research center undergoes a cyber attack
Der Spiegel magazine reports that German Aerospace Center in Cologne (DLR) fell victim to a carefully organized cyber attack