Microsoft and Facebook move against cyber attacks

©Provided by: pestaola.gr Microsoft, Facebook and several other big names in the Cyberspace want to end cyber attacks of all kinds. The purpose of Facebook and Microsoft’s moves is to enhance Internet security, but also to further sensitize the public in this direction. The big internet players have come up Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

New protection tools from Google after the scandal with Facebook

© Sofokleousin.gr New protection tools from Google after the scandal with Facebook New protection tools are being prepared by Google after the Facebook scandal and the more general debate about personal data security in the digital world. In particular, Google has decided to increase the security level of its popular Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Facebook: How to find out if you are a victim of the Cambridge Analytica scandal

© Provided by: PROTO THEMA S.A. With a message, Facebook users will be able to see if they are among the 87 million social networking users who were victims of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. From today, Facebook will begin to send notifications to its users’ profiles that have been affected Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

New game scam on Google Play

© Shutterstock New game scam on Google Play ESET urges Android users to be very careful with a new scam that was discovered on Google Play. This is the “Pingu Cleans Up” game, targeted primarily at users who have stored credit card information in their Google Play account, trying to Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

USA: Hackers stole 5 million credit and debit cards

© Provided by: capital.gr A group of hackers has stolen five million credit and debit cards data from US store customers and puts them on sale, according to Gemini Advisory’s cyber security company yesterday. According to the company, it is the work of the self-proclaimed JokerStash team, which recently announced Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Facebook will limit third party access to user data

© Provided by: pestaola.gr In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica personal data leak scandal, Facebook has announced that it will restrict user data that will be available for promotional purposes. This will happen very soon and will limit access to personal data that companies currently have and use them Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Facebook: Changes in privacy settings are coming up

© Sofokleousin.gr Facebook: Changes in privacy settings are coming up Changes in privacy settings, Facebook is preparing, according to a company’s announcement today, to address, to some extent, the huge scandal that broke out in connection with the misappropriation of personal data. The minor corrections were announced on Wednesday, according Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

What does Facebook know about its users?

© naftemporiki.gr What does Facebook know about its users? Pressure on Facebook is exacerbated by the misuse of millions of user data by Cambridge Analytica. More and more users want to know the fate of their data. For weeks now, Facebook has been targeted by organizations protecting personal data. Even Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Hacker team earns millions through malicious mining software

© Provided by: pestaola.gr According to Kaspersky Lab researchers, hackers have begun using sophisticated methods of “infection” and techniques borrowed from targeted attacks, Their goal is to install mining software on computers that have been attacked within organizations. The most successful team seen by Kaspersky Lab earned at least $7 Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Google says Android is as safe as iOS

© Provided by: pestaola.gr It can be widely spread that Android is not safe, but Google emphasizes in every way that its operating system is as secure as iOS. According to the annual security report issued by Google, significant security steps have been made for Android users, while in the Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Google: Removed 100 malicious ads per second

© Sofokleousin.gr Google: Removed 100 malicious ads per second Google announced that in 2017 it removed more than 3.2 billion ads that did not comply with its advertising policies, which translates into more than 100 malicious ads per second. This, according to the company, means that most of the malware Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Google blocks crypto-coin ads

©Provided by: capital.gr Google proceeds to prohibit crypto-coin advertisements on all its online platforms. The ban will take effect in June, without specifying why there will be this delay. Google has made this decision, according to the BBC, believing that consumers who want to invest in Bitcoin and similar digital Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

How would you see the folder that Facebook keeps about you

©Provided by: Attica Publications We probably do not offer you something NEW, when we say that Facebook is watching you. You know that and we know it and (fortunately or unfortunately) we have accepted this “game”. What you may not know is that the analytical data it collects and obviously Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Russian cyber-attack on German ministries

© naftemporiki.gr Russian cyber-attack on German ministries Russian APT28 attacked the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Defense and the German Federal Government and obtained data, sources of security services said today at the German news agency and in the German media. According to sources, German security agencies discovered Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

Experts warn: Artificial intelligence can be exploited maliciously by hackers

© www.cnn.gr Tech Artificial Intelligence has now reached a point of development that can exploit it maliciously and to the benefit of authoritarian states, terrorists and hackers, warn in a new risk-bell report 26 experts in the safety of new technologies. The report predicts, in the next five to ten Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …

US scientists: That’s how aliens will bring ‘Apokalypse’ to Earth!

© Provided by: 24 Media Extraterrestrials can bring the end of the world without even having to visit our planet, reveals a new survey of a group of scientists from Hawaii. According to the study, all that extraterrestrials need to do if they want to destroy mankind is to send Διαβάστε Περισσότερα …