This type of thing should really move us more, but I am afraid that we have recently been oversaturated with groundbreaking news of various leaks, e-robberies and other Internet mischief. Now we are simply jaded and largely indifferent to most of them. Anyway, back to the point: two days ago the press has been informed that personal data of 30 thousand ...
Good guys from Palo Alto Networks have just discovered that 113 of Flash app sources online have been infected with a nasty bot. The program's name is XMRig and it is a silent bitcoin mining device - it will use your computer's resources to mine e-currency and send it to a set receiver (tip - not you). Miner does not spy on the infected user, but its activation ...
Long story short, Google has allowed personnal data of 500 thousand of its users to be stolen, failed to inform us about it and now backs off by turning off the Google + service. Long story a bit longer: Google + social service will be closed down for most of its users in ten months. Why? Well, because the fact that almost nobody uses G+ anymore, the more ...
According to Bloomberg, Chinese spies have managed to install special microchips on the servers of thirty largest American companies, including Amazon and Apple. The chips were reportedly not only stealing data these companies gathered but also infected their servers with various kinds of viruses. How did the spies gain entry to the servers? Bloomberg ...
QRecorder was an app of some renome, available on Google Play for some time already. Its purpose was to record phone calls. While it did that, not long ago it was found out that QRecorder also had another, more malicious function. As it turned out, QRecorder was a trojan. Its function was to check text messages of infected devices for bank account access ...
You have bought yourself a new device, like networked storage or a router. You go through the process of installation, use the default password ”admin” or ”1234” or whatever, install it and then change the password. It is just common sense, right? Well, many Americans are seemingly failing with the last part of the process, because ...
As reported by the Nightwatch Cybersecurity, there is a newly found hole in the security of every Android OS older than 9 Pie. This gap allows a potential hacker to learn your phone's IP and MAC address, Wi-Fi and BSSID, giving them the possibility to, among other things, track your position and enter your Wi-Fi network. Google knows the issue and is working ...
Tinder informs its users that it has finally managed to fix a semi-serious hole in its security measures. This hole allowed people with reasonable hacking skills to reveal not only Tinder users' pictures but also their activities on the service; namely the left and right swipes. This info could be used to, for example, blackmail a Tinder user who does ...