Techno News

15.08.2016
20 luxury hotels in the US are victims of a hacker attack
Presumably, cyber criminals managed to compromise credit card data of thousands of hotels' guests

15.08.2016
Cryptocurrency for DDoS attacks
Researchers demonstrated possibilities to create a new type of cryptocurrency

12.08.2016
Hilton hotels sent out “phishing emails” to their guests
Even Hilton’s IT tech considered emails sent by their colleagues to be an attempt of a phishing attack

12.08.2016
One key to 100 million Volkswagen vehicles
Researchers have demonstrated how to hack Volkswagen wireless key-fobs

11.08.2016
Multi-armed Shade
Features of the ransomware popular in Russia have just expended

11.08.2016
Gmail introduces additional warnings about emails' insecurity
Email service will warn users about messages with links to unsafe resources

10.08.2016
Three quarters of companies faced data theft or loss
IT experts are afraid of ransomware and fellow employees

10.08.2016
Flash plug-in will disappear from Google Chrome in December
The once popular plug-in is closer and closer to oblivion

09.08.2016
“Eye of Sauron” adapted for spying
Previously unknown cyber espionage group has been conducting targeted attacks against organizations in several countries including Russia

09.08.2016
The UK showed the highest growth in credit card fraud
Credit card fraud in the UK has increased by 88 million pounds

08.08.2016
Quadrooter vulnerability threatens 900 million Android devices
Devices with a Qualcomm chip are under a threat

08.08.2016
First robot-cyber defender has been created
Experts at ForAllSecure got $2 million for creation of the program that protects itself from cyber attacks completely on its own

05.08.2016
Organizers of DDoS attacks are switching to Linux
Kaspersky Lab states the growth in DDoS attacks’ length and the number of botnets formed by devices running Linux

05.08.2016
Apple introduces security bounty program
Researchers could get up to $200 hundred from Apple

04.08.2016
1.5M of fake Prisma apps
Malicious counterfeit Prisma apps have been downloaded from Google Play Store more than 1.5 million times

04.08.2016
Possibilities of a “hack” of presidential elections discussed in the USA
Could hackers affect voting results?

03.08.2016
Hackers withdrew more than 65 million dollars from Hong Kong Bitcoin exchange
Almost 120 thousand Bitcoin disappeared from the digital wallets of Bitfinex exchange clients

03.08.2016
Data of 200 million Yahoo users is on sale
After MySpace and LinkedIn hacker Peace got to Yahoo

02.08.2016
Bank Barclays introduced voice recognition
British bank decided not to use passwords during client phone calls

02.08.2016
Data of employees from the US military and State Department got leaked from porn site
Why you shouldn’t use business email address on third-party resources