Techno News

08.02.2017
Ransomware Spora takes care of its clients
“More user-friendly and helpful than the customer support service provided by many tech companies today”

07.02.2017
Manufacturer of smart TVs has been fined for spying on the audience
Vizio will pay US$2.2 million for collecting and selling data on viewers’ preferences

07.02.2017
Illegal content on the Dark Web was hit
Unknown hacker attacked servers of the Freedom Hosting II that was related to distribution of children pornography

06.02.2017
Hackers are looking for protection from other hackers
Darkmart on darknet has introduced a bug bounty program

06.02.2017
WordPress secretly eliminated a dangerous vulnerability
Zero-day vulnerability potentially allowed changing the content of WordPress websites remotely

03.02.2017
The court listened to the pacemaker
Heart rate has failed the arsonist

03.02.2017
Google scared of doctors
The largest search engine mistakenly took requests of the UK National Health Service as a botnet attack

02.02.2017
Protect grandma from phishing
Older women are the most prone to fall victims to phishing attacks

02.02.2017
The Netherlands will hand-count the votes
Dutch authorities got afraid of insecure vote-counting software

01.02.2017
Former employee at the US Federal Reserve has been sentenced for Bitcoin mining from employer's server
Enterprising web analyst used banking equipment in an unconventional way

01.02.2017
Hackers stole data of 2.5 million players
Cybercriminals hacked XBOX 360 and PlayStation Portable forums

31.01.2017
The number of ransomware attacks has increased 4 times
The number of ransomware attacks will increase even more

31.01.2017
Secure browser Firefox Focus “speaks” Russian now
Mozilla’s mobile browser for iOS has been translated into 27 languages

30.01.2017
Right before the inauguration in Washington 70% of CCTV cameras were knocked out
From 12 to 15 of January the majority of CCTV cameras in the capital of the USA didn’t function

30.01.2017
Hackers “closed” an Austrian ski hotel
Hotel’s management is willing to switch electronic locks for classic ones

27.01.2017
Facebook proposes to lock all accounts with a key
The largest social network introduces the system of two-factor authentication using USB-key

27.01.2017
Ransomware’s next target – Internet of Things
Will ransomware reach cars and “smart” houses?

26.01.2017
Charger spares Slavic people
New ransomware for Android doesn't block users from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

26.01.2017
Hacker trades billions of Asian users' accounts
A giant array of stolen data has been put on sale on the “dark net”

25.01.2017
Power of DDoS attacks increased 80 times in 11 years
Internet of Things devices radically change the situation when it comes to DDoS attacks