American tech company Garmin has been hacked. The company's systems are infected with the WastedLocker ransomware. Hackers responsible for the attack will unlock closed off files only after Garmin pays them an impressive ransom of ten million dollars. The situation is serious, as due to the virus the company's taiwanese factories have all ceased to work; ...

The app in question is VivaVideo, a free video editor by the chinese developer QuVideo Inc.. VPNpro researchers have taken a look at that app and soon found out that its installation requires a disturbing number of access authorizations, up to and including user's localization and contact list. It was not long before VPVPro have found out that the app is infected ...

Spring is coming, and along with it warmer days. Almost all of us can hardly wait for the it, but there is one thing that preferes colder climates - our phones. These devices like to overheat from a number of causes, and high temperatures outside only help them in doing that: - overuse of the phone, like too long conversations or gaming sessions - ...

So much has been said about mobile devices' security that I do not have the heart to bore you with that same old shtick once again. Instead, I will get straight to the point; if you want to be as certain as possible that your phone is safe from e-harm, read this article and use my suggestions. Today's article is about Android devices, but many of these ...

The unfortunate event took place on February 26th. Flight from New York to Bahama had to be aborted midair after a passenger's powerbank spontaneously erupted in flames. The situation was handed by the plane's staff and there was no fire but nevertheless the pilot has decided to emergency land the plane in Daytona Beach. Everything went well, no one got hurt ...

Okay, perhaps ”suspect” is not the correct term. The phone in question belonged to a man responsible for shooting 3 and wounding 8 a couple weeks ago at the US Navy base. The request to unlock his phone has been sent by FBI General Counsel Dana Boente himself. Apple, though, states that it already shared ”all of the data” it possesses ...

Or at least trying to. Born in China and presumed to work for the chinese dictatorship hacker group APT20 has, over the course of the last few years, successfully performed series of cyber attacks. The group operated (operates?) in Brazil, Western Europe and USA. APT20's targets were mainly the micro economy sector - small and medium ventures. Interestingly, ...

85 apps have said goodbye to Play Store after yet another Google purge. This one, instigated by the Trend Micro security specialists, aimed to remove apps infested with some pretty nasty adware. Those applications, mainly video games and camera software, not only had 5 minutes long unskippable adds but were also difficult to locate and uninstall from ...

Bulgarian police has caught a 20-years old hacker responsible for what is the greatest (so far) hacker attack in Europe. Young hacker has managed to break into the data banks of bulgarian IRS and steal personal data of five million citizens. Considering that Bulgaria only counts a little over seven million people, the attack's scale is really gigantic. ...

18 years old man has been apprehended in the Polish city of Lodz (Łódź). He is being accused of maintaining a darknet (in short, darknet consists of websites that cannot be found by using a common browser) website containing pedophile and zoophile* material. In the man's house, police have found hardware containing passwords to the website as well as certain ...

Samsung laboratory in Russia (Russian-placed lab working on technology with the word ”fake” in its name? Hmm...) works on improving the so-called ”realistic neural talking heads” mechanism. This mechanism makes it possible to animate static pictures, and doing it so well that the fakes are difficult to recognise from real video ...

Yep, it is official - viruses and hackers' attacks are now being used as war deterrents similiar to nuclear missiles. Japanese Ministry of Defense has announced that it is creating its own malware program as a means of ”defense” against any such attacks committed against it by other nations. The program is supposed to be finished by the end of the year. ...