Techno News

14.03.2014
DMARC protocol brings down fake Twitter emails from 110 million to a few thousand
"Lo and behold, it works." Josh Aberant, Twitter's postmaster in charge of messaging, couldn’t hold back his excitement as he commented on Twitter's adoption of a messaging authentication protocol called Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC)

14.03.2014
Google makes encrypted search available in China
The service will be available by default and is expected to help users escape the Great Firewall of China, as the government system of internet filtering and censorship is known

13.03.2014
WhatsApp is not as secure as it seems
Dutch researcher Bas Bosschert has presented evidence that the WhatsApp messenger, considered one of the most reliable in terms of protecting user data, can actually be quite vulnerable, at least with regard to its version for mobile Android devices

13.03.2014
Most dangerous latest cyber spyware programs are close relatives
Kaspersky Lab researchers believe that the most sophisticated and dangerous cyber espionage software share a common ancestor: the Agent.btz virus that was used in the attack against the U.S. Central Command in the Middle East in 2008

12.03.2014
Banking Trojan uses security firm name
Security firm Trusteer, an IBM company, said that its name is being used by hackers in a sophisticated new ploy to target Android users with the Zitmo Trojan, also called Zeus-in-the-mobile, which is a variety of Zeus Trojan horse computer malware

12.03.2014
WordPress feature used in DDoS attack
Popular content management system WordPress has turned out to have a vulnerability which can be used to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks

11.03.2014
Europol warns against unsecure Wi-Fi hotspots
Troels Oerting, head of Europol's cybercrime center, told BBC that a growing number of cyber attacks are being carried out via public Wi-Fi and that people should send important data only across trusted networks

11.03.2014
New Trojan malware appeals to the lowest instincts of Facebook users
Hundreds or even thousands of Facebook users have fallen victim to new malware, the latest in an epidemic of such scams on the world’s most popular social network

07.03.2014
New malware detection tool to secure Android devices
Researchers from North Carolina State University developed a new tool for detecting malware-infected Android applications

07.03.2014
Koreans exposed to another massive data breach
The South Korean government announced an inquiry into another massive private data breach

07.03.2014
Privacy groups want FTC to suspend WhatsApp-Facebook deal
Two US privacy rights groups, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Center for Digital Democracy, have filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting that the regulator halt Facebook's proposed acquisition of WhatsApp

06.03.2014
Canadian Bitcoin bank loses USD 580,000
Flexcoin, a Canadian online bank specializing in dealing with Bitcoin virtual currency, suspended its operations after hackers stole an equivalent of USD 580,000 from it

05.03.2014
Over 300,000 consumer-grade routers could be compromised
Internet security research organization Team Cymru has published a report saying that the DNS configuration on approximately 300,000 small office/home office (SOHO) routers was remotely altered, opening up victims to a host of compromises

05.03.2014
Mass reset of user passwords was due to malfunction - Twitter
Many Twitter users were unnerved by password reset request emails from the company on Monday evening, after being temporarily locked out of their accounts

04.03.2014
Russia Today website compromised by hackers
The Russia Today website has come under a cyberattack

04.03.2014
Windows hurries XP users
Beginning March 8, users of computers with the Windows XP operating system will start receiving notifications about the number of days remaining before the expiration of technical support for this OS

03.03.2014
Forty percent of Britons pay up when attacked by Trojans
Researchers from the University of Kent (UK) presented the results of a large-scale cybersecurity study involving 1,500 UK residents of different ages who ran into information and personal data integrity problems

03.03.2014
German company suspects Russia of creating sophisticated malware
German computer security and antivirus detection company G Data Security has reportedly detected extremely complex and dangerous computer malware dubbed Uroburos

28.02.2014
Insurers refuse to do business with energy companies because of poor cybersecurity
There has been a sharp increase in requests for insurance from energy companies, but insurers have been turning down multi-million pound contracts, citing poor cyber security in the sector, Lloyd's of London told BBC

28.02.2014
First ever wi-fi virus created in Liverpool
Researchers from the University of Liverpool (UK) have created the first computer virus worthy of the name