Threats

In this week’s edition of the Transatlantic Cable podcast, we discuss Equifax, PornHub, pulled AI and more.

How well do you know the world of cybersecurity?

The largest motor show in the world is the best place to see what cars will look like in the near future.

The real scale of the Yahoo breach (spoiler: 3 billion), Facebook’s own Face ID, UK Lottery DDoS, and more.

Transatlantic Cable Podcast episode 4: tax scams, trading data for swag, AI password cracking, and more.

A new blocker called nRansom locks users out of their computers and demands not money, but nude pictures.

A few more tips about gaming accounts safety, or How to protect your Steam, Uplay, Origin, battle.net and so on.

Several months ago, our experts found a bunch of vulnerabilities in Android apps that allow users to control their cars remotely. What has changed since then?

Fraudsters make a fortune mining cryptocurrencies — on your computer, at your expense, and without your knowledge.

Transatlantic Cable Podcast episode 2: autonomous pizza delivery, Sarahah’s privacy issues, reprieve for victims of Yahoo!’s data breach and more.

A story about a large malicious campaign carried out in Facebook Messenger — and how it worked.

How mobile Trojans exploit WAP billing to steal money, and how to protect yourself.

Modern technology actually helps phone scammers — what you need to know to stay safe.

What should you do if your antivirus detects something it calls “not-a-virus”? What kind of applications are behind this message, and what is all the fuss about?

Android Trojans have been mimicking banking apps, messengers, and social apps for a while. Taxi-booking apps are next on the list.

Black Hat 2017 demonstrated that Microsoft enterprise solutions could be quite useful in attackers’ hands.

Assembly robots are made with physical safety in mind, but hacking these machines is still frighteningly easy

Global IT security problems like the recent Petya attack are of clear concern to large corporations — but they affect common people as well.

Just a few hours ago, a global ransomware outbreak began, and it looks to be as big as the WannaCry story that broke not so long ago.

By now, everyone has heard about the WannaCry ransomware attack. So far we have two posts about it: one with a general overview of what happened, and another with advice for businesses. But