While the whole world is waiting whether North Korea will carry out its threats and deliver a nuclear attack on U.S. or not, another fight has already been started by Pyongyang a long time ago. Its battlefield is cyberspace, the most feared weapons are the hacking skills and South Korea is naturally the likeliest target. A massive cyber attack that shut down nearly 50,000 computers and servers of South Korean broadcasters and banks in March 2013, is just the temporary tip of the iceberg. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has come to enjoy cyber assaults on its southern neighbour and seems… Read more →

Technologies of the 21st century have forced us to get used to such a huge privacy loss that we don’t even realize it. We can be located with GPS in our mobile phones, we can be stalked on the internet, and every mouse click is monitored. Nowadays, we are drawing even nearer to Orwell’s world of Big Brother, with new frightening drone cameras funded by the Pentagon’s research unit DARPA. Well, it doesn’t mean permanent surveillance through spying “telescreens” in our homes like in the “1984″ novel, but still, it will be an immense invasion of… Read more →

The total number of Facebook users worldwide has exceeded one billion this year, so it’s no wonder that this social website is constantly targeted by hundreds of different internet attackers. Most frequently, hackers use phishing scams to hijack user accounts to gain their sensitive information. Despite the fact that this is a well known gimmick, a significant number of victims still manage to get nailed everyday. Phishing techniques are these days much more … Read more →

If you are a LinkedIn, Twitter, Last.fm or Evernote user, maybe you have often had to change your security passwords. All of these online services have had to face hacker attacks in the last few months, as all of these systems have been breached. The last mentioned, digital notebook Evernote, is a brand new victim of internet aggressors. The case seems to be even more serious considering that Evernote issued a huge… Read more →

Credit cards belong to such modern conveniences, which have become an integral part of millions of peoples everyday life. You can use your credit card in many ways – for paying a bill in a restaurant, in shops, or for online shopping. This practical invention can make your life easy, but it can also make it much harder. Everybody knows that a card needs to be blocked when it is lost or stolen. However, what do you do, if your card is still safely placed in your purse or wallet, but nevertheless your money is disappearing from your account without a trace? Let me introduce skimming – a popular method of using your credit card without you even noticing. Read more →

“Send a key to decrypt our cloud service and you’ll get 10 thousand euro” – you will find this offer on the blog of Kim Dotcom, the tycoon of internet piracy and the founder of Megaupload.com – the former biggest server for data sharing. Dotcom is reacting peculiarly to the criticism wave connected with a security solution of his new project Mega. Fans are looking for loopholes to see if it’s possible to penetrate this “invincible“ system, and providers of… Read more →

Social networks are alluring hackers like flies to a flypaper. The latest example is Twitter, from where a quarter of million users‘ passwords and other sensitive data have leaked recently. Fortunately, experts from this social network stopped such an attack at the very beginning. That’s why this unpleasant incident only caught the minority of the 200 million users. But 250 thousand of successfully caught victims is also an alarming number, and Twitter cannot simply wave it aside. Particularly, when vulnerability of their network is shown disturbingly often.

The last affair was in quick succession. Twitter announced that… Read more →

Hardly anybody can imagine living without a TV nowadays. It usually holds a place of honour in most living rooms, we switch it on to amuse ourselves, relax, watch news or just as background noise. But this is not sufficient for every viewer anymore. For those who want to watch what they admire instead of choosing from a few channels at their disposal, and for those who wants to use a TV for listening to music, as well as for playing games, or getting in touch with friends, there is a smart TV – a gadget which has… Read more →

The New Year 2013 is here and with that comes new security threats which are going to jeopardize your computer, tablet or smartphone in the next twelve months. You have already been warned about the dangers of privacy loss, risks … Read more →

The independent testing laboratory Virus Bulletin issued yesterday the results of 33 antivirus products from the whole world. The tests were conducted on the new Windows 8 platform. TrustPort Antivirus ranked in the first place with its 95,25 % score … Read more →