What Makes for a Secure Messaging App?
The pace of modern life leaves no time for long, thought-out messages. Perhaps that’s why today’s answer to the wordy correspondences of yesteryear is text messaging. Practically everyone has at least one messaging app on their smartphone, and many of us use several. But what factors do people consider when choosing messaging apps? Is security one of those factors? Recently a team of experts led by a group of Google employees surveyed...
Self-Driving Cars: New Cybersecurity Challenge
Sometimes there is a feeling that we live in a science fiction novel. Kitchen appliances cook dinner when we return from work. TVs remember viewers’ preferences. Smart cars suggest a way to bypass traffic jams and adjust the temperature in the cabin… Yet people have a place in this high-tech chain. We manage smart devices – give orders and monitor their execution. But it seems that very soon smart devices will be able to...
Ransomware – to Pay or Not to Pay
Just recently, a new “creative” ransomware called CryptMix revealed itself in the malware family. The ransomware promises its victims to transfer their money to a children’s charity. This statement might seem like a funny joke, but most likely the victims of this virus deprived of an access to their files do not consider it funny at all. Moreover, so far it is impossible to decrypt the CryptMix with modern decryption...
Why Gamers Need 2-Step Verification
Online games ceased to be considered a not serious occupation long ago. Today not only students but also bankers, senior managers, and other adult solid people play computer games. For some, it has even become a rather profitable profession. Even if the game is played just for fun, it is still about large sums of money: to buy bonuses and gaming resources, upgrade items and characters. Besides, paid online games are growing in...
Mobile Banking Trojan Acecard – All You Need to Know About a New Threat
The smartphone has a wide range of functions. Despite its main feature of being a phone, this gadget allows you to listen to the music, read, surf the Internet, pay bills, work with documents, etc. A huge part of personal and business life of our contemporaries is tied to this smart device. Realizing this, the hackers began to concentrate their efforts on creating mobile malware programs. Many of them have already been discovered:...