Techno News

16.05.2014
Snowden scares even Al-Qaeda
Former NSA agent’s leaks have forced Arab terrorists to upgrade their encryption tools

16.05.2014
Government agencies and organizations are the primary targets of cyber attacks
76% of carefully planned attacks in the first quarter of 2014 were directed at the government sector

15.05.2014
US Senate expresses concern over security of online ads
US legislators threaten to take action if the online advertising industry fails to improve security standards on its own

15.05.2014
Google Apps services to use dual-factor authentication system even for users who haven’t signed up for it
In an effort to enhance user security, Google is about to turn mobile phones into a mandatory authentication device

14.05.2014
Google users now have a right to «edit» search results
European Union’s highest court ruled that Google in some cases must delete search results by the request of users

14.05.2014
Devices running Android become the main vector of cyberattacks
Cybersecurity experts are concerned with the continuous rapid growth of malware for Android phones and the ease with which it penetrates Google Play

13.05.2014
Owners of Google accounts fell victims to a phishing attack
Bitdefender reports new phishing attack that aims at owners of Google accounts

13.05.2014
More than 300 thousand servers are still vulnerable to Heartbleed
Robert Graham, expert at Errata Security, published results of a large-scale study he conducted

12.05.2014
«Smart» TVs with build-in microphones can be used to spy on their owners
Participants of cybersecurity conference Infosec Europe that took place in London were impressed by NCC Group presentation

12.05.2014
Scheduled update release by Microsoft eliminates eight vulnerabilities, two critical
Tomorrow, second Tuesday of the month, so-called Patch Tuesday, Microsoft will release its planned update, the content of which is already known

08.05.2014
Ransomware got to Android
Ransomware exists for a long time and has proven to be very effective on computers and laptops, so it is no wonder that a version for mobile devices now exists too

08.05.2014
Orange hit by hackers again
Orange, the leading French telecommunications group, reported data breach

07.05.2014
«Botometer» for Twitter
Researchers at Indiana University in Bloomington decided to «bring to light» all Twitter accounts controlled by bots.

07.05.2014
Hackers hit the jackpot again
Representatives of Affinity Gaming, which runs 11 big casinos across the territory of the United States, confirmed in a statement that in April hackers managed to penetrate systems of the company.

06.05.2014
Vice president of Symantec Brian Dye: «Antivirus is dead!»
Symantec’s senior vice president for information security Brian Dye was interviewed by an authoritative edition The Wall Street Journal. During the conversation, he admitted that creation of antivirus software had exhausted itself as a business model and is no longer viewed as a key moneymaker in the company.

06.05.2014
Sophos offers a bike ride against weak protection of wireless networks
Sophos launched an interesting campaign called World of Warbiking.

05.05.2014
Data breaches deprive business of up to 30% of clients and consumers
Javelin Strategy & Research released results of a survey conducted last autumn. 5634 people participated in the research, comprising a representative sample of U.S. population. Research purpose was to find out how did information about data breaches occurring in chains of big companies affect Americans.

05.05.2014
Covert Redirect – the threat exists, but it is not a major problem
Last weekend a mathematics student Wang Jing from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore posted a message that made a splash. He reported discovery of a Covert Redirect vulnerability that the media hastily equaled with infamous vulnerability of cryptographic protocols OpenSSL Heartbleed, which is considered one of the most serious threats to the Internet.

30.04.2014
Underground forum advertises cross-platform trojan for devices running either iOS or Android
Experts  with Israeli firm SenseCy reported discovery of a new malware dubbed iDroid on  one of the Russian underground forums.

30.04.2014
Resurrection of Sefnit botnet
Sefnit malware became widely known in September of last year.