Teaching cyber-security from school age
As the Internet increasingly becomes part of our everyday lives and we use new technologies in all areas of our life, there’s an ever greater…
Jennifer Lawrence: Victim of a security hole in iCloud?
If you are on Twitter you may have noticed the actress Jennifer Lawrence has been ‘Trending Topic’ since yesterday afternoon. The reason? The leak…
Malware still generated at a rate of 160,000 new samples a day in Q2 2014
The second quarter of 2014 has seen the creation of 15 million new strains of malware Trojans are still the most common type of malware,…
WhatsApp. Beware of cyber-crooks and scams!
This week, WhatsApp has announced that it now has 600 million active users. The news was released by Jan Koum, the CEO and co-founder…
Hackers reveal their secrets on Twitch, the gamers’ streaming platform
Twitch was set up in 2011 as a video streaming platform yet, unlike YouTube, it is mostly videos of games and playthroughs that are broadcast…
UPS stores attacked in the USA
UPS, the international courier service, may have been the victim of a cyber-attack using a virus detected in 51 of the company’s US stores. A…
Spanish hacker manages to control every room at a luxury hotel remotely
Imagine the following situation. You arrive at your hotel. And not just any hotel, no. A gorgeous 5-star hotel that occupies the top 28 floors…