Techno News

13.02.2014
Flappy Bird doubles are dangerous for mobile devices
Several companies involved in cyber security raise the alarm because of the counterfeit Flappy Bird mobile applications for Android that have flooded the market

13.02.2014
Caution: “Olympic” spam
Kaspersky Lab informs about a new form of mobile fraud: SMS spam about Olympics in Sochi

12.02.2014
Yet another DDoS-record registered in Europe
CloudFlare, a company that also dedicates to provide cyber security reported the most powerful DDoS-attack as of today

12.02.2014
McAfee returns
John McAfee, creator of one of the first anti-viruses, announced the imminent release of his new product called Cognizant

11.02.2014
Service Snapchat can disable mobile devices
The popular image sharing service Snapchat can be used to organize DoS attacks on the users

11.02.2014
Kaspersky Lab has unveiled another cyber espionage campaign
Kaspersky Lab experts have unveiled APT (advanced persistent threat) attacks. According to them, this is a large-scale cyber espionage campaign, undertaken for at least 7 years

10.02.2014
New ransomware does not block systems but Internet access
Emsisoft experts report discovering yet another type of ransomware. Trojan, named Trojan-Ransome

10.02.2014
A new malware that attacks payment terminals is discovered
IntelCrawler for the last months has been specializing on studying a certain category of malicious software – malware aimed at points of sale (POS)

07.02.2014
NBC newsman, who reported that hackers were all over Sochi, is accused of lying
Robert Graham, representative of Errata Security called the report of the NBC journalist Richard Engel “wrong in every aspect”

07.02.2014
Facebook protects users of Android-devices
Facebook experts have developed a new security tool named Conceal that in the nearest time will be available for all developers of applications on Android

06.02.2014
Target systems were compromised through ventilation
Apparently, U.S. intelligence was able to figure out how cybercriminals managed to gain access to computer systems of retail chain Target

06.02.2014
Hackers go to the Olympics
NBC broadcasting company insists that all participants and guests of Olympic games in Sochi should take urgent measures to protect their computers and mobile devices from cybercriminals

05.02.2014
Tumblr implemented support for SSL-encryption. Almost
Popular microblogging service Tumblr (so far there are about 170 million registered blogs) announced adding support for SSL-encryption from yesterday

05.02.2014
Syrian hackers took offense at eBay
The hacker group «Syrian Electronic Army» has once again reminded of its existence

05.02.2014
Adobe classified a new vulnerability as the highest level of threat
Adobe recommends users of Flash Player for Windows or MacOs to urgently upgrade their software

04.02.2014
Cyber attack as a way of improving academic achievement
11 high school students of Newport Beach (California, USA) were expelled for breaking into computers of their teachers and correcting the notes

04.02.2014
Apple is eyeing medical market
Information leaked to American press about a meeting of Apple executives with Margaret Hamburg, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner

03.02.2014
The refusal of support of XP causes millions of ATMs to be at risk
Microsoft refusal of further support and update of Windows XP operating system, planned for April, is fraught with serious problems for banking industry in general and ATM networks in particular

31.01.2014
Security through obscurity: new perspectives
Former leading researcher of RSA Labs Ari Juels continues his interesting research in the area of data protection

31.01.2014
New trojan downloads to Android devices with the operating system
Russian company Dr.Web reports discovery of a dangerous malware for Android devices