Synching your smartphone and computer might increase your chances of being hacked A classic piece of advice that helps keep email, social networks and other online services safe is by enabling something called two-step verification. This security mechanism makes it more difficult for a cyber-delinquent to access your account through two-step verification. When a different […]

Two hackers convicted of making and selling the infamous SpyEye botnet creation kit were sentenced in Georgia today to a combined 24 years in prison for helping to infect hundreds of thousands of computers with malware and stealing millions from unsuspecting victims. Aleksander Panin developed and sold SpyEye. Image courtesy: RT. Atlanta Judge Amy Totenberg handed down a sentence of nine years, six months […]

A few days ago at PandaLabs, Panda Security’s anti-malware lab, we discovered a type of ransomware that we believe is extremely important to talk about, especially because of its novelty and its unique features. The name of this new ransomware is CryptoBit. If we compare it to what we’ve learned thus far from other ransomware, […]

Microsoft Windows users who still have Apple Quicktime installed should ditch the program now that Apple has stopped shipping security updates for it, warns the Department of Homeland Security‘s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). The advice came just as researchers are reporting two new critical security holes in Quicktime that likely won’t be patched. US-CERT cited an April […]

A detailed presentation of this research was delivered at RSA US 2016, and is available at https://www.rsaconference.com/writable/presentations/file_upload/tech-t09-smart-megalopolises.-how-safe-and-reliable-is-your-data.pdf In the past two years traffic sensors have mushroomed in Russian cities. Drivers using speed camera detectors were the first to spot the white boxes stuck to posts along the roadside. Their devices, designed to warn drivers about […]

Infecting computers with a new type of Ransomware  Sending out your resume into the net’s black hole can make the job application process feel hopeless.  Where do our resumes end up?  Do recruiters even read them?   The recipe for landing a job is already a difficult task in itself, but now we have to squeeze […]

Connections are made and maintained online via social media You can get insight into the life of a stranger through their Instagram photos, Snapchats, or profile pages, but when does it become too much? Our names alone can connect the dots for a perpetrator, making it easy to know our whereabouts. Information about where we […]