Techno News

11.01.2017
The US intelligence didn’t recognize Tor exit nodes
Yet another argument on how dubious the evidence was that “Russian hackers” influenced the results of the US Presidential elections

10.01.2017
The attack on Anthem insurance company was state sponsored
New details on the breach of personal data of almost 80 million US citizens

10.01.2017
Britain is ready to render cyber blow for cyber blow
The British Parliament will estimate the level of national cyber security

09.01.2017
Hackers decided to educate users
A variant of Koolova ransomware promises to decrypt the files after the user reads two articles on the dangers of ransomware

09.01.2017
Trojan Android Marcher disguises itself as the Super Mario Run game
Hackers are capitalizing on the impatience of Android devices’ users

30.12.2016
White hat hackers attack servers of cyber criminals
“All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action”

30.12.2016
New ransomware demands more than US$200 thousand
Malware KillDisk used in the attacks on Ukrainian energy sector has been transformed into ransomware

29.12.2016
Police is seeking “testimony” from house assistant Amazon Echo
Amazon is following Apple

29.12.2016
“Hackers-insiders” charged
Three Chinese citizens illegally made no less than US$4 million, so they could get no less than 50 years in prison

28.12.2016
Mirai botnet now has “competition”
DDoS attack has been recorded that in power could only be compared to the recent Mirai botnet attacks

28.12.2016
Spam accounted for 78 percent of all Christmas emails
Sellers of counterfeit goods are especially active during the holidays

27.12.2016
New ransomware DeriaLock has been discovered
New malware is capable of both blocking the screen and encrypting files on infected computers

27.12.2016
A Christmas gift for fans of outdated Windows OS
Firefox browser for Windows XP and Windows Vista will get tech support till September

26.12.2016
Obama is willing to thwart Trump’s plan to register all Muslims
US President’s administration leaving the White House soon plans to shut down the registry that tracks citizens from countries with high terrorist activity entering and exiting the US

26.12.2016
Signal hid behind Google
Developers of the Signal messenger protected their users from state censorship

23.12.2016
Apple postpones the ban on HTTP for apps
The new date of the full transition to the App Transport Security protocol hasn’t been announced yet

23.12.2016
Gifts at the expense of others
Right before Christmas hackers are emptying accounts of Groupon users

22.12.2016
Superheroes are powerless to hackers
Twitter accounts of Marvel and its superheroes have been hacked

22.12.2016
Google employee accuses his employer of spying
Fight for confidentiality could cost Google US$3.8 billion

21.12.2016
“Nigerian emails” in a new way
Los Angeles County intends to seek extradition of a hacker suspected of a cyber attack from Nigeria