We recently heard of Hacking Team, an Italian company that sells intrusion and surveillance tools to governments and law enforcement agencies. This has earned the company brickbats rather than accolades as they have been lambasted by privacy and human rights organizations. It has been reported that hacking Team has been accused of selling tools and […]
Adobe Systems Inc. says its plans to issue a patch on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Flash Player software that is reportedly being exploited in active attacks. The flaw was disclosed publicly over the weekend after hackers broke into and posted online hundreds of gigabytes of data from Hacking Team, a controversial […]
3D printing has a great future, but also begins to be part of our present. For years, there were who anticipated the arrival of a third industrial revolution starring this technology. A new era in which companies from different sectors will need to reinvent their processes and look for new ways to add value, since […]
By becoming popular, they turn into a real danger. The more famous an application is, the more likely it will be used by cybercriminals to carry out frauds, which may turn out very expensive for those distracted users. The perfect example is WhatsApp. Each novelty announced by the instant messaging service is exploited immediately by […]
The Internet is a fantastic resource for researching the reputation of companies with which you may wish to do business. Unfortunately, this same ease-of-use can lull the unwary into falling for marketing scams originally perfected by spammers: Namely, fake reviews and dodgy search engine manipulation techniques that seek to drown out legitimate, negative reviews in a […]
In the April 7 advisory, we talked about Dyre Wolf banking malware which is a variant of the Dyre Trojan. It was used in a succession of phishing campaign across the globe. Now, cybercriminals are serving Dyre through another channel. Trust cybercriminals to find new ways to host malicious software used in drive-by attacks. One […]
You open an application to read the news, check your e-mail or social networks and, on many occasions, it asks you for a username (which may be your email address) and a password. You must sign in to access the headlines which have been customized depending on your preferences, your Inbox where you receive your […]