Techno News

31.03.2014
Microsoft has changed the privacy policy for the second time in a fortnight
A scandal, involving Hotmail messages being read by a Microsoft representative, has lead to the necessity of changing the privacy policy for the second time in two weeks

28.03.2014
China promises to improve cyber security measures in response to U.S. threats
PRC government will take all measures to improve cyber security of the country in protection from American hackers. Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng announced this yesterday

28.03.2014
WinRAR archiver is used for a cyber espionage campaign
Cyber security experts warn about a new threat. Its source is a program WinRAR well-known to Windows users, that allows to compress and decompress archives

27.03.2014
Facebook brings together all the information about online threats
Social network Facebook announced launching a ThreatData project, that, according to its creators, is supposed to be a universal instrument to collect, store and analyze information about threats in global net

27.03.2014
«Advanced» malware speaks 10 languages, uses Tor and demands tribute in Bitcoin
Recently discovered trojan Fareit threatens Windows based computers, but turned out to be a more serious threat that originally anticipated

26.03.2014
U.S. banks sue Target and Trustwave
American banks whose cards were compromised during the infamous cyber attack on retail chain Target in the end of last year, filed a joint lawsuit

26.03.2014
Misleading information about the missing Malaysian liner is used to organize APT-attacks
As reported earlier, tragic incident concerning Malaysian airliner, that was carrying out a flight MH370 and disappeared more than two weeks ago, is shamelessly used by hackers to achieve their goals

25.03.2014
Tumblr introduced a two-factor user authentication
Microblogging service Tumblr announced switching to a two-factor user authentication

25.03.2014
Microsoft warns users of discovered vulnerability
Microsoft warns users of discovered vulnerability in word processor Word 2010. Notification reads that this vulnerability has already been used in "limited, targeted attacks"

24.03.2014
Malware for iOS – too scary to be true
Israeli firm Terrogence reported in their blog a discovery of malware Zorenium, that infects iOS devices

21.03.2014
Syria was left without Internet for 7 hours
Since yesterday morning for 7 hours all companies involved in Internet monitoring reported a halt of online traffic in and out of Syria

21.03.2014
Cyber attacks and data breaches will cost 500 billion dollars this year
International Data Corporation (IDC) experts and scientists from National University of Singapore (NUS) presented a jointed study on the assessment of risks associated with cybersecurity in 2014

20.03.2014
Hacker Diabl0 has been arrested in Thailand
Thai police announced the arrest of hacker Farid Essebar, aka Diabl0. Essebar’s «deeds» are widely known in the Internet world. In particular, he accused of creating a very dangerous Zotob worm, whose victims once were sites of the largest American companies and media, including CNN, ABC, Financial Times and New York Times

20.03.2014
Еlectronic Arts webpage turned into a trap for Apple users
Taking advantage of the vulnerability of one of the servers of Electronic Arts (EA), world famous manufacturer of games, hackers managed to set up a fake Apple log-in screen

19.03.2014
Google Play goes down for research purposes
Google Play was unavailable twice during the last few days for both users who wanted to download new applications and developers trying to update their apps

19.03.2014
Spy phones went on sale in the USA
Last week in the USA started legally selling application mSpy and smartphones with this application pre-installed

18.03.2014
Japan conducts large-scale cyber training
During the training, 21 government agencies and 10 major associations of industrial enterprises are going to participate. In addition to security institutions of enterprises and agencies, more than 200 security experts will take part and will coordinate “the defense” from a special center in Tokyo and several more places in regions

18.03.2014
Cybercriminals beat records in cynicism
Moral principles have never distinguished hackers and spammers however their last “deeds” beat records in cynicism

17.03.2014
No browser is safe, it’s still true
The Pwn2Own and Pwnium hacking contests took place at the annual CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada

17.03.2014
China censors shut WeChat accounts
As the Chinese parliament’s lawmaking session closed last week, the country’s censors carried out another crackdown on a popular messaging service, something that can hardly qualify as a coincidence