© Shutterstock Phishing attacks have doubled in 2018 Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing system blocked more than 482 million visits to fake websites during 2018, more than twice as many as 2017 when 236 million similar attempts were blocked. Annual increases in the number of phishing attacks have been observed in recent

© Provided by: P.ATHANASIADES & Co. SA The main feature of the new generation USB, or USB 4, is that it will offer high speeds in data transfer.  USB 4 will offer support for Thunderbolt 3 ports, while the higher speeds are referred to by the USB Promoter Group, the organization that

Provided by makeleio.gr Google discovered a serious vulnerability in Windows 7 operating system and warned users of the system (which are still many around the world) that their computer is in danger of breached by hackers . Microsoft , which was informed, said that working to tackle the problem. The hackers exploit the “hole” in Windows 7, in conjunction with

© www.cnn.gr World After Messenger, Viber also embraced the Dark Mode philosophy and gets a dark subject. This feature will be less tiring for your eyes at night. How to turn it on: You can enable “Dark Mode” from the application settings on the tab “View”. With the new upgrade to Viber

© www.cnn.gr Tech Facebook sets in active mode the dark function of Messenger, called «dark mode», which had already announced last year, following the trend of the times. What does this mean; Messenger experimentally attempts to replace the white background with black. The font remains white to be legible, and some fields, such

© naftemporiki.gr Robotic TV news caster from Xinhua China’s state-run Xinhua news agency used on Sunday an anthropomorphic robotic TV news reporter who imitates the expressions of the human face to present a story about the arrival of delegates at an annual parliamentary meeting in Beijing.   As Reuters reports, the

© Provided by P.ATHANASIADES & Co. SA Android users have underestimated the danger from fake banking apps, warn researchers of ESET, and ought to be more careful about this type of malware targeting mobile banking.‎ These apps mimic authentic bank applications to extract user access data into their bank accounts

© naftemporiki.gr Artificial Intelligence Against Ovarian Cancer Researchers have created a new machine learning software (artificial intelligence) that can predict survival and response rates in patient treatments with ovarian cancer.   The artificial intelligence software, which was created by researchers at Imperial College London and Melbourne of the University, was able to make predictions on

© Shutterstock Malware warning on Google Play ESET’s researchers discovered the first Android malware that can replace the contents of the clipboard of a device in GooglePlay. The so-called “clipper” targets Bitcoin and Ethereum encryption transactions, aiming to redirect the transfer of funds to the attacker’s wallet instead of the victim. “This discovery shows that clippers, which can redirect amounts

© Provided by: P.ATHANASIADES & Co. SA Google+ leaves the online reallity, inviting users to download their data until early April.  Already since February 4, it is not possible to create new Google+ profiles, communities, events, and pages, which shows that Google+ isa social network that will soon cease to exist. In order not to lose user

© Provided by: PROTO THEMA SA Instagram, the very popular new social networking site, has decided to ban photos showing self-harm, thus participating in the fight against self-harm and suicide, announced today the platform belongs to Facebook. Very recently: “We found that, as far as the issues of self-harm and suicide are

© Provided by: P.ATHANASIADES & Co. SA The new version of Viber offers more flexible and easy communication, twice the speed of conversations and improved privacy features. More specifically, Viber, one of the world’s leading messaging platforms, has announced the launch of Viber 10, which brings new design, improves user experience and -exploiting Viber’s fast

© Provided by P.ATHANASIADES & Co. SA According to TechCrunch, Facebook paid its new users to watch indiscriminately everything they do there.  Facebook users were between the ages of 13 and 35, who took a $20 fee a month to install a Virtual Private Network on their Android or iOS mobile called Facebook Research. Through this software, Facebook could receive detailed information

© Provided by P.ATHANASIADES & Co. SA A bug that lets you hear people who you have invited to a group conversation before these people accept the call is the reason Apple is going to disable Group FaceTime. Disabling FaceTime ‘s group chat was on Monday as the US company tried to resolve the problem, with the solution expected to come

© Shutterstock Facebook proceeds to consolidate WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger Facebook plans to unify Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger applications. Although they would retain their autonomy, on a deeper level it is now possible users’ messages to “travel” between the three services. As Athens News Agency (ANA) broadcasts, Facebook has

Provided by: © P. & Co ATHANASIADES. SA Upstream reveals that some Alcatel mobile devices sold with pre-installed malware in the form of weather forecasting application. This application was also available through Google Play, with over 10 million downloads worldwide. The Upstream‘s findings have been published in the prestigious Wall