The Android ecosystem has taken the market by storm in the last few years, with hundreds of millions of devices, smartphones and tablets, already in the hands of customers, and more on the way this holiday season. As you will know if you read our recent blog post about malware trends in 2013, malicious code
How to download Youtube videos on my iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad? I was being spammed with this question for a long time. So here is the answer. It was very hard rather impossible to record videos from […]
India is one of the most affected countries from the hands of cyber crimes this and statistics prove this too. This year an increase of about 57 percent is recorded in the amount of websites being hacked from all over India in comparison to the year 2009 which recorded only over 9000 website’s hackings. This year only October such […]
When you become powerful, you slowly begin to forget what is lawful and what isn’t. Same is the case with the current market leader in the world of search engines. It is again in the court over another significant breach of law. Let’s first learn background of law breach. Google is recently found to be scanning email conversations […]
Apache modules are add-on code taking advantage of the Apache module API to extend the functionality of the standard Apache distro. In this case, the binary’s functionality was malicious, but there is no exploitation of a known Apache vulnerability in this case.
Win32/Spy.Ranbyus shows how it is possible to bypass payment transaction signing/authentication with smartcard devices and has started to modify java code in one of the most popular remote banking systems (RBS) in the Ukraine.
Android enthusiasts claim to have discovered a new vulnerability on Samsung smartphones that could allow an attacker to gain administrative access to the device through any installed app.
A French-Moroccan national was jailed by a Dublin court after being found guilty of hacking into the business accounts of an online betting company, according to the Irish Independent.
A hacker who broke into celebrity email accounts and leaked nude pictures of Hollywood actors, including Scarlett Johansson, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, according to an Associated Press report.
Samsung series 5 ultra touch is the first windows 8 ultrabook laptop. It’s a wonderful laptop, which is the first one specifically designed for Microsoft’s new operating system i.e. Windows 8. The laptop isn’t as aerodynamic as the series 9’s laptops, but, it’s not more less then it. It has an aluminum and fiberglass exterior and is really thin […]
Today, a Swedish card payment processor was sentenced for a 48 month jail for campaigning a $71 million fraud-lent activity through infecting computers through scare-ware and selling rogue anti-virus software. Mikael Patrick Sallnert, 37 year old citizen from Sweden was charged by the U.S. code of law. Not only the verdict was sentenced jail but also was ordered […]
New malware that attacks point-of-sale (POS) systems had been detected in 40 countries in recent months. The malware, dubbed “Dexter” is able to skim credit card information from compromised POS systems.
A Barclays employee accessed her partner’s ex-wife’s bank statements when he was involved in a legal dispute over the terms of a divorce settlement.
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined two owners of a marketing company £440,000 ($713,000) for bombarding the public with millions of unlawful spam texts over a period of three years. It’s the first time that the ICO has used its power to issue a monetary penalty for a serious breach of the UK Privacy
ESET has announced Endpoint Security for Android, which it says is specifically designed for the contemporary business environment and adds another layer of protection to the family of ESET Endpoint Solutions and features all the benefits made popular by the previous version of ESET Mobile Security Business Edition. The new Android solution also includes Anti-Theft,
An attack on the Australian Defence Force Academy servers held at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) resulted in the loss of 20,000 user records. According to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald the hacker, known as Darwinare, managed to break in and steal the records, including passwords and email addresses in a
Detectives from the UK Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) investigating cyber criminals who use “ransomware” have arrested three people. Ransomware is a form of malicious software or malware that is served up by infected websites (which themselves may be legitimate). Victims inadvertently download the software which infects their computer. The scam takes different forms in
More than half of all web servers on the Internet use Apache, so when we discovered a malicious Apache module in the wild last month, we were understandably concerned.
The Turkish Samurai Hacker, along with his friends have been attacking high profile companies and countries everyday, This time carrying up with the cause, the hackers have hacked 21 Barbados websites including the official websites of the country’s Supreme Court, The Regional Security System, St Leonard Church and Barbados’s Mancal Bank. The hackers left 2 different deface pages on the targeted websites, […]
Many of us now buy goods and services online for the convenience and savings. The experts at ESET put together this guide to safer online shopping so you get the goods you want, and no nasty surprises. Tune your shopping machine Like the tune-up your car gets before a long drive, your laptop may need
Want to be safer online using your laptop or tablet when using public Wi-Fi? You can. Here are our five essential tips. 1 First, if you are not going to use the Internet it’s a good idea to turn off Wi-Fi connectivity completely on your laptop, smartphone or tablet. You are then guaranteed that your