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Law enforcement identifies and located suspects members of a criminal organization that used gas pump skimmers, by using the GPS technology. The number of attacks against ATMs located in supermarkets and Gas pumps is constantly increasing, the crooks use credit and debit card skimmers that use different technologies to steal card data and steal them. Today […]
Hackers have a new tool in their arsenal dubbed Facebook Friends Mapper that allows them to crawl Facebook Hidden Friends list just in a click. Facebook users can protect their privacy by setting the “privacy level” for every information related their profile or content they post online. Users can decide to completely set as private the information in […]
Police worldwide are warning of a social media game dubbed game of 72 that is challenging teenagers to disappear for three long days. Any abuse of technology against children and youngster can have devastating effects social media them, their lives and their harmony of their families. Social media are among the paradigms that can be transformed […]
A Google study on Ad injection activities revealed that more than 5% of unique IPs visiting Google-owned websites had at least one ad injector installed. According to a new report published by Google 5.5% of unique daily IP addresses visiting google-owned websites have at least on ad injector installed, superfish.com is the most popular, being […]
More than four million smart meters and similar devices worldwide are open to cyber attacks due to the security issued in the Open Smart Grid Protocol. The Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP) is a family of specifications published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) that are implemented today by more than four million smart […]
To address the risk PCI DSS 3.1 updates requirements 2.2.3, 2.3 and 4.1 to remove SSL and early TLS as examples of strong cryptography. “The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has identified the Secure Socket Layers (SSL) v3.0 protocol as no longer being acceptable for protection of data due to inherent weaknesses within the […]
Malware developers have presented two proof-of-concept malware, a rootkit and a keylogger, which exploit the GPU of the infected host. Malware authors always demonstrate a great creativity and the ability to propose even more effective solutions, recently developers have published two strains of malware, Jellyfish rootkit and the Demon keylogger, that implement an unusual way to run on a victim’s […]
According to data provided by British law enforcement, at least a 25 percent of organised criminals in the country is converting themselves to cybercrime. Cybercrime is becoming even more attractive to traditional crooks, including violent offenders. According to data provided by British law enforcement traditional crimes were continuing to fall while the number of online crimes […]
A new collection of documents leaked by Snowden revealed how the US intelligence converts spoken conversation in indexable text with RHINEHART and VoiceRT tools. Following the disclosure of Top-secret documents provided by Edward Snowden everyone is aware of the risks of using any sort of communications methods, what was once private now it isn’t anymore, […]
AlphaCrypt ransomware is a new type of ransomware has been detected by security expert in the wild. The malware is delivered via Angler Exploit kit. Ransomware is among most popular malware families in the criminal underground, recently security firms have discovered numerous variant targeting desktop and mobile platforms. Recently a new strain of ransomware dubbed […]