Techno News

20.11.2013
Latest meeting of Internet Engineering Task Force turned out to be the “most political” for a long time
IETF is an open organization that unites designers, scientists, network operators and service providers to develop protocols and the architecture of the Internet

19.11.2013
Popular games’ servers keep suffering from DDoS-attacks
Last weekend Electronic Arts (EA)’s server that supports online game The Battlefield 4, went down due to a DDoS- attack

19.11.2013
CryptoLocker – new and dangerous ransomware
Bitdefender Labs researchers report a growing epidemic of infection caused by a new ransomware Trojan dubbed CryptoLocker

18.11.2013
Security concerns: a gap between theory and practice
ESET, manufacturer of well-known antivirus software, presented survey results conducted by a research center Harris Interactive

18.11.2013
New Trojan changes start pages of web browsers
New Trojan changes start pages of web browsers

15.11.2013
Government information requests on Google users have doubled in the last three years

15.11.2013
XSS-attack – the main threat to large banks

14.11.2013
Researchers were awarded for hacking iOS and Android
A contest on hacking mobile devices was held at the conference on cyber security PacSec 2013 that closes today in Tokyo

14.11.2013
The number of users affected by the attack on Adobe continues to grow
One of the most high-profile cyber attacks of the recent times affected a far greater number of people than expected

13.11.2013
Europe is actively implementing DNSSEC
European registries keep on expanding the usage of DNSSEC technology, based on the use of digital signature of responses on DNS requests and designed to provide strong protection for the domain name system

13.11.2013
Cyber training for financial institutions took place in London
Around 100 largest financial institutions and organizations situated in the British capital yesterday took part in a sort of training to fight off cyber attacks

13.11.2013
Australia and Indonesia are on the verge of a cyber war
Relations between Australia and Indonesia for many years remain quite strained. In another piece of Edward Snowden’s revelations he informs that Australian intelligence services participate in cyber espionage against neighboring states, which just added fuel to the fire

12.11.2013
Discuss security issues turned out to be quite insecure
A large American webpage which forum is widely used by specialists to discuss issues of national and international security turned out to be a source of a cyber threat

12.11.2013
Syrian hackers protecting users’ personal data
Vice.com, that belongs to a large international media-group Vice Media and focuses mainly on young audience, was hacked by so-called “Syrian Electronic Army”

11.11.2013
Eugene Kaspersky told about infection of a Russian nuclear power plant with Stuxnet
The head of «Kaspersky Lab» spoke at Canberra Press Club 2013 about information security problems of modern society

11.11.2013
On passwords once again
Stricture Consulting Group analyzed data on passwords of 38 million Adobe users whose personal information was stolen by hackers during recent big cyber attack. Results leave much to be desired

11.11.2013
Business hides more than a half of all cases of cyber attacks
ThreatTrack Security published results of a survey conducted at its request by a research agency Opinion Matters

11.11.2013
Brazilian phishers are getting ready to go international
Experts of «Kaspersky Lab», Latin America report significant advancement of a phishing attack

10.11.2013
Revival of the «Silk Road»
Just one month after FBI agents managed to expose and shut down the largest clandestine webpage of illegal goods and services “Silk Road” and arrest its’ founder Ross William Ulbricht, the black market revived in the form of an anonymous Tor network

09.11.2013
Android suffers from excessive zeal of smartphone manufacturers
Smartphone manufacturers initially overload devices with an excessive number of applications with vulnerabilities in settings