Ransomware has become an albatross around the neck, targeting businesses, hospitals, and personal computers worldwide and extorting Millions of Dollars.
Typical Ransomware targets victim's computer encrypts files on it, and then demands a ransom -- typically about $500 in Bitcoin -- in exchange for a key that will decrypt the files.
Guess what could be the next target of ransomware malware?
Russia’s new Vostochny Cosmodrome has conducted its first space launch on Thursday. A Soyuz rocket boosted three scientific and distance viewing satellites into orbit.
The lift-off took place at 5:01am Moscow time (2:01am GMT) and some 8 minutes 44 seconds into the flight the Volga upper stage carrying three satellites successfully separated from the Soyuz rocket.
YouTube sensation and inventor Colin Furze is used to making insane things like retractable wolverine claws, working versions of the hidden blade and rope launcher featured in Assassin's Creed games, and even a homemade Iron Man suit. But this time he decided to do something even crazier and build a hoverbike, and surprisingly, he succeeded and didn't die in the process.
UDOO X86 is the New PC: the most powerful maker board ever and an Arduino™ 101-compatible platform, all embedded on the same board.
On UDOO X86 you can run all the software available for the PC world, from gaming to video streaming, from graphical editors to professional development platforms, plus all the software for the Arduino™ 101 world, including all the sketches, libraries and the official Arduino™ 101 IDE.
Opera became the first major web browser to come with a built-in ad blocker last month. Now, the company has introduced another baked-in feature that’s usually found in the form of an extension: a VPN.
The virtual private network feature arrives after Opera’s acquisition of VPN service SurfEasy in March last year. At the moment, it’s limited to the developer version of the desktop browser, and users are only able to choose from three “virtual locations” – the US, Canada, or Germany – but soon Opera will make more locations available in the stable version.
During a recent conversation with a close friend of mine, I mentioned the fact that I’ve gone over my 300GB broadband data cap a handful of times since switching from AT&T U-Verse to Comcast for my home Internet needs last September. He was flabbergasted and questioned how I could possibly be using that much data each month.
While I do work from home and am actively online for several hours during weekdays, I don’t game online or download torrents. I am, however, a cord-cutter so all of our television watching comes from streaming services like Netflix, Hulu and Sling TV.
An Atlanta judge has sentenced two international hackers to a combined 24 years in prison for their roles in creating and distributing the SpyEye botnet creation kit.
Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, a 27-year-old Russian national that went by the name “Gribodemon,” was picked up by authorities at an Atlanta-area airport on July 1, 2013, and pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire and bank fraud several months later. According to the Department of Justice, Panin was the core developer and distributor of the botnet toolkit. He received a sentence of nine years, six months in prison that will be followed by three years of supervised release.
Touring a city ravaged by the earthquake that killed at least 413 people, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa on Monday contemplated a rebuilding costing billions of dollars and a potentially "huge" impact on the fragile OPEC economy.
But the traumatized survivors Correa met on his rounds two days after the magnitude 7.8 quake had much more immediate concerns: many asked him for water.
With the death toll likely to rise further and swaths of flattened homes, roads and bridges coming to light, a visibly moved and grim-faced Correa warned that Ecuador's biggest disaster in decades would put a big toll on the poor Andean country.
A rescue operation is underway in Ecuador after the South American nation was hit by its worst earthquake in decades, which saw at least 272 people killed and hundreds injured, and left many others trapped under the debris.
On Saturday, the 7.8-magnitude quake struck off Ecuador's Pacific coast, 170 kilometers northwest of the country’s capital, Quito, causing death and destruction in Manta, Portoviejo, Pedernales, Guayaquil and other coastal cities and villages.
Security researcher Mike Olsen has warned that some products sold through the Amazon marketplace are habouring a dark secret -- malware.
Olsen said in a blog post that while scouring Amazon for a decent set of outdoor surveillance cameras for a friend, he came across a deal for 6 PoE cameras and recording equipment.
The seller, Urban Security Group, had generally good reviews and was offering a particular Sony setup on sale.
Marcel Lazar Lehel aka "Guccifer" – an infamous Romanian hacker who hacked into the emails and social networking accounts of numerous high profile the US and Romanian Politicians – appeared in the United States court for the first time after extradition.
Following Romania's top court approval last month, Guccifer was extradited to the United States recently from Romania, his home country, where he had already been serving a hacking sentence.
