Russia's parliament has just passed a new law, according to which Russian soldiers are forbidden from using smartphones while on duty. To be more specific, the bill forbids them from using a phone with capabilities to take pictures, record videos and access the Internet - so yeah, smartphones. Technically the soldiers could use old cellphones, as long ...

It has barely been four years since Microsoft would tell us to absolutely use Internet Explorer and now... well, now times have changed. For the last four years Microsoft have not supported IE, which means that this particular internet browser is piss easy to break in. It is possible that Microsoft will soon be saying the same thing about Edge, its second ...

Thanks, ScamWatch, for this warning. Over the past few days there has been a rising in a number of false ”emergency” text messages over Australia. These texts contain information that someone is in trouble and needs immediate help. When responded to, the texts continue, quickly turning to verbal isults against the addressee. No attempts ...

Remember how last week it turned out that FaceTime allows you to hear other people even before they pick up their group call? It turns out that the person who found this bug was a mere fourteen years old boy called Grant Thompson. Boy has reportedly figured out that something is wrong when he tried to gather his friends for Fortnite game. Apple has decided ...

This new term means basically hacking electronics with your own body - no, not like that. In 2017, a group of American scientists from the University of Washington have accomplished a rather sci-fi-ish task of coding a computer virus into a human DNA and then using said virus to break into a computer. They have managed to do this by (I will describe ...

Ever since 2014 Russia tried to make Apple to host its data servers in Russian territory. Now it turns out that the Reds have managed to accomplish this goal; Apple will move some of its servers onto Russian soil. In accordance to Russian law, the government there will have full access to the data kept in these servers: names, addresses, phone and e-mail ...

Some of the web browser add-ons have a nasty habit of collecting data about our Internet usage, even when we turn to Private mode. This, thankfully, will now change, at least in Firefox: Mozilla's browser will receive the option to turn off any and all add-ons when working in Private mode. Mozilla did not say when will this feature be introduced, but it is said ...

Bug in FaceTime app's programming allowed the callers to eavesdrop on the receivers of the call. All they had to do was to add themselves to the talk before the receiver picked it up and voila, they were suddenly receiving all the audio from the receiver even before she/he picked it up. Apple has temporarily closed down FaceTime's group chats and is currently ...

Like WikiLeaks, only this time it is the eastern colossus that got hit. 108 gigabytes worth of secret mails, documents and recorded talks from Kremlin have just been released online. The culprit is a newly created group of hacktivists called Distributed Denial of Secrets, or DDoS; group has been created in December 2018 by a collective of white hat hackers, ...

Russia joins the list of countries fighting with online anonymity. Russian government (that is, Putin) has implemented a law bill according to which, starting on February 2020, every device connected to the Internet will have to be registered beforehand. This bill is supposed to help fight illegal trade of, for example, stolen smartphones, but it is not hard ...

Long story short, people from Wired, a monthly American magazine on technology, have recently found out that a large, combined hacker attack under the code name ”Collection#1” have gathered over 87 gigabytes of e-loot. Among it are 773 million e-mail addresses, which perhaps is not bad in itself, and 21 million passwords to some of these ...

Firefox 69, the newest version of this classic web browser, will not support Flash Player. The old plug-in is generally considered to be an old and unhandy relic of the old times and is being pushed out more and more in favour of HTML 5 or other, newer ones. Firefox 69, which is supposed to come out on September 2019, will block that plug-in by default. ...