Interesting data from PricewaterhouseCoopers…

The Trojan horse FlashBack gave Apple fans a really hard time at the beginning of April. More than 700 thousand Macs were infected. An error in Java implementation was to blame. Although Java doesn’t come from Apple, it is still an indispensable part of Macs and developers off Apple haven’t prepared an adequate substitution yet. This fact has started a question wave motion. Is the Mac OS X platform still effective enough if we… Read more →

People surfing the internet through different mobile devices spend two hours daily doing this activity. They let themselves be influenced by advertisements with total pleasure. Most people are online at home, and in their own bed. How is it possible? Such conclusions come from mobile advertisement network InMobi. They did a survey amongst people who use smart phones, common mobile phones, tablets and… Read more →

If you want to beat an enemy, you have to learn about them first. The more you know the better. This rule is valid not only in a personal life or business, but also on the battlefields of cyber space. I am not speaking about any online games, virtual killing of mafia members or wild car chases on the net. Your on-line enemies do not play any games, they wage a serious combat. You are the target of their attack. Your privacy and your money most of all. Do you know who is set on you? Read more →

Information about the planned attack has been issued by Anonymous on Pastebin: “The greatest enemy of freedom is a happy slave. To protest against SOPA, Wallstreeet, our irresponsible leaders and the beloved bankers who are starving the world for their own selfish needs out of sheer sadistic fun, on March 31, Anonymous will shut the Internet down.“ Read more →

Recent research shows that 82 % of financial institutions were confronted with fraudulent conducts and disruption of security. A total of 230 American banks and credit-granting companies were surveyed. In spite of the fact that it isn’t anything surprising, it is still very alarming information, because this threat concerns… Read more →

Android belongs to one of the most open and diverse platforms. One could think that it would be very easy to infect such a platform with viruses or malicious software. However, the reverse is true. The authors of the Android platform have thought about the security of users’ data at the beginning even before building the whole system. The principle of launching the application is totally… Read more →

As you probably know from last week, computer experts from the US government have experienced quite a moment because of an attack by the hacker community Anonymous, which has assaulted the websites of the FBI, White House and other important internet websites. Why? The government of the United States of America blocked… Read more →

Recently there was a lot of ballyhoo about quite an old “SpyEye“ Trojan horse. This Trojan appeared on the scene in 2009, but has been modified since then, and it has been troubling lots of people with bank accounts in the UK and USA. What does SpyEye actually do? It steals your bank passwords and Read more →

Getting a new job may be like an adventure, opening new horizons, bringing many possible outcomes. It can also be a completely dull, tiresome, and ineffective struggle. Which one it would be, that depends on your… Read more →