Techno News

25.10.2016
Fix-the-we-cannot-say-what-vulnerability-immediately
The content management system Joomla! is warning of a critical security hole so bad its developers aren't saying what it fixes

24.10.2016
DDoS attack disrupts work of leading US websites
One of the largest DNS providers in the United States was attacked by Mirai malware

24.10.2016
All Weebly users’ data stolen
The service’s more than 43 million users fell victim to this latest mega-breach

21.10.2016
Experts suggest avoiding typing during Skype calls
Privacy experts reveal a new method of confidential data theft

21.10.2016
Three million debit cards compromised in massive Indian data breach
Experts describe the incident as a serious blow to the country’s financial infrastructure

20.10.2016
Young people fall for security scams more often than older people
Young users most often fall victim to scammers who present themselves as Microsoft technical support

20.10.2016
Hackers hunt for home routers
One in seven routers use pre-installed logins and weak passwords

19.10.2016
Over half of all traffic in transit is encrypted
In the last 10 months, the volume of encrypted traffic has increased by over 10 percent

19.10.2016
Google blocked in France as a terrorist site
A large French internet service mistakenly identified Google and Wikipedia as terrorist sites and blocked them

18.10.2016
Trojan Dyre re-surfaces in a new disguise
Possible successor to one of the most dangerous banking malware has been discovered

18.10.2016
POS skimmers: now with Bluetooth
Well-known researcher reports a new way of stealing banking cards' credentials

17.10.2016
Bad old Ghost Push – the main threat to Android devices
More than a half of Android users in the world have outdated operating systems

17.10.2016
Facebook paid US$5m for vulnerabilities in 5 years
The largest social network is summing up the results of the «first five years» of its bug bounty program

14.10.2016
Organizers of phishing attacks switched to WSF attachments
Ransomware Locky and Cerber got new “transportation assets”

14.10.2016
The number of accounts that were exposed this year is over 2 billion now
Modern Business Solutions has been the source of another major data breach

13.10.2016
Cybersecurity spending will be over $100 billion in 2020
Businesses are actively investing in information security

13.10.2016
Hackers use game currencies for money laundering
Researchers urge to take action in relation to webpages that specialize in the resale of gaming currency

12.10.2016
Microsoft updates: now all together
Microsoft changed the way security updates are distributed

12.10.2016
Kaspersky Lab opens the first industrial CERT in Russia
Information threats for industrial systems long ago stopped being science fiction

11.10.2016
IAEA Director General spoke about a cyber attack on a nuclear power plant
International Atomic Energy Agency believes that the problem of cyber security is the key one for the industry