If you see this ad and suddenly want to take your iPhone back in time to January 1, 1970… don’t do it! The website 4chan, known for its memes, has shared a joke which claims that if you change the date on your iPhone to January 1, 1970 that the device’s interface will change to […]

WhatsApp is set to send a warning to users when they receive a dangerous file. The instant messaging application will introduce this feature during its next few updates, making the sharing of files a bit safer. Under a new menu, named Documents, users will find a section which is similar to the current one which […]

Kaspersky Lab security researchers Santiago Pontiroli and Roberto Martinez explain how ATM malware works in Latin America and why it’s difficult to discover ‘jackpotting’ malware. Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit 2016 on Tenerife, Spain. Source: Kaspersky

It’s likely that one more than one occasion you’ve noticed the small green lock icon that appears in the address bar when you’re using the Internet. This little icon means that the site you are using is secure as the page is using HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure). HTTPS encrypts all communications to protect confidential […]

In the past few weeks the website Football leaks has been publishing contracts relating to signings and transfers of football players from the world’s top leagues. While some accuse the people behind this page of hacking and document theft, they themselves have assured that they haven’t, in any moment, hacked anyone and that they actually […]

  Long live mobile phones. Although smartphones are designed to be little more than ornaments as the years progress, what’s certain is that when we change our device for a newer model we can still get some final use out of the old one before it’s resigned to the bottom of a drawer. Apart from […]

Saint Valentine’s Day has as many lovers as haters. From those that love to spend the day with their significant other, or even celebrate singledom with friends, to those that hate being told when they should celebrate being in love. What none of us are free from, however, are the ways in which cybercriminals try […]

Kaspersky Lab researcher Vitaly Kamluk gave a talk about the latest version of the cross-platform Adwind RAT. The remote access Trojan is unique in that it’s written in JavaScript, giving this version — which is also known as Frutas, AlienSpy and JSocket — the flexibility to be used liberally in cybercrime operations as well as […]

Sergey Lozhkin, senior researcher at Kaspersky Lab’s GReAT gave a talk about several critical vulnerabilities he found in one hospital’s IT infrastructure. From Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit 2016 on Tenerife, Spain. Source: Kaspersky