Techno News

07.10.2013
Details about closing service Lavabit used by Snowden have come to light
Ladar Levinson, creator and former owner of secure email service Lavabit has every chance to become a new hero of the struggle for the rights and freedoms of Internet users

04.10.2013
Hackers broke into Adobe
Brad Arkin, Chief Security Officer of Adobe, posted yesterday in a blog that the company had suffered a serious hacking attack

04.10.2013
Malware vigorously acquires legitimate digital certificates
McAfee ascertains stable growth of the number of malware that has legitimate digital certificates

03.10.2013
Government «rest» - hackers work
Suspension of the U.S. government activities because of the lack of agreement between lawmakers about the budget could result in serious growth of hackers’ activities, - warn experts

03.10.2013
One more reason to dislike advertising
Non-profit organization Online Trust Alliance (OTA) that aims to spread safe practices of Internet usage has published a new list of recommendations and warnings for users

02.10.2013
Symantec has successfully attacked one of the largest botnets in history
Symantec specialists have managed to wreck a major part of the botnet ZeroAccess. According to various estimates it brings together about 1,9 million of infected computers and could be considered one of the largest in history

02.10.2013
Voice assistant Siri helps hackers
A new vulnerability of iOS 7 operating system for Apple mobile devices is discovered

01.10.2013
U.S. Internet encryption standards are not reliable
Technology Company Silent Circle that specializes in development of secure communication systems announced it would stop using encryption algorithms approved by U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

01.10.2013
Malware Fort Disco got to Email and FTP
Swiss experts of the resource Abuse.ch that studies spread of botnets reported on evolution of malware known as Fort Disco

30.09.2013
Google introduced a complete encryption of all search queries
Google announced full transition to the usage of cryptographic protocol SSL. This means that any search query addressed to Google goes through the procedure of encryption

30.09.2013
Watering hole type of attacks becomes hackers' favorite weapon
Watering hole type of attacks becomes hackers' favorite weapon

27.09.2013
IT experts in search of «internal enemies»
Californian company Vormetric and Enterprise Strategy Group conducted a survey of 700 professionals of IT field in the USA to find out which threats are supposed to be the most serious

27.09.2013
Britain lags behind in the implementation of IPv6 protocol
Logicalis experts together with scientists from Southampton University expressed concern over the slow pace of implementation of IPv6 data transmission protocol in the UK

26.09.2013
Sudan dropped off the Internet
Several companies that monitor Global network reported that Wednesday morning all the web-traffic from Sudan stopped completely

26.09.2013
Facebook и YouTube – spam champions
Nexgate presented a study on the level of spam in social networks. Its researchers analyzed 60 million messages, published from 25 million accounts in different social networks

25.09.2013
The NYPD is campaigning for the update of iOS
Over the weekend a lot of New Yorkers witnessed a rather unusual action of the police

25.09.2013
New threat to online-banking
Zscaler reports that in the last month cases of computer infection with Trojan Caphaw also known as Shylock became way more frequent

24.09.2013
California State passed a law on minors’ personal information protection on the Internet
California Governor Jerry Brown yesterday signed a bill according to which from 2015 web pages, applications and online-services oriented on the minors will have to provide the user with the ability to delete information previously communicated to them

24.09.2013
Security of iPhone 5S haven't lasted even two days
It took the hackers less than two days to crack biometric security of a new iPhone 5S based on fingerprint scanning

23.09.2013
Every cyber attack costs small business almost 9 thousand dollars
U.S. National Small Business Association (NSBA) has published a report “Technologies in small business – 2013». According to its data, almost a half of small businesses have undergone cyber attacks in the recent time