Cybersecurity specialists discovered that attackers had adapted infected Word files to mine cryptocurrency, writes Lenta.ru with reference to the company VOTIRO Secured. Documents are infected by embedding specialized JavaScript code containing a miner. After sending seemingly harmless Word files, recipients are connected to the system...
Apple said that all chips on its Macs, iPhones and iPads have two critical flaws. It became known this week that big tech companies are trying to fix flaws under the codenames Meltdown and Specter, which allow hackers to steal data, writes the BBC. Apple ...
The Uber taxi ordering service was hacked, as a result of which the data of 57 million passengers and drivers of the company were stolen. According to the BBC, the incident occurred in October 2016, but it became known about it only now. Instead of reporting ...
Do you think there is nothing more harmless than a teddy bear? Cybersecurity expert Rubin Paul will convince you that this is not the case. At the age of 11, Share America writes, Rubin knows more about internet safety than most adults. He performed in ...
Verizon has confirmed that 6 million customer data has been leaked online. The security problem, discovered by researchers at cybersecurity firm UpGuard, appears to be due to “human error”—someone incorrectly entered security settings on a cloud server. The error resulted in telephone numbers…
Customers at Safeway stores in Colorado and California were victims of cyber fraudsters who swiped their credit and debit cards while making purchases through payment terminals. “Safeway confirmed that it is investigating incidents involving the copying of data from bank cards in various chain stores,”...
The lawyers of the Russian Roman Seleznev, who is the son of Russian State Duma deputy Valery Seleznev, asked the American court to close the cybercrime case against their client. During the hearings, the defense stated that the employees of the Secret Service and the US State Department, during the arrest of Seleznev, were rude ...