A new strain of ransomware nicknamed “Bad Rabbit” has been found spreading in Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere. The malware has affected systems at three Russian websites, an airport in Ukraine and an underground railway in the capital city, Kiev. The cyber-police chief in Ukraine confirmed to the Reuters news agency that Bad Rabbit was the…
SAN FRANCISCO: The administrators on WhatsApp groups will soon be able to choose if other participants can modify the subject of the group, its icon and its description. According to Wabetainfo.com, a fan site that tests new WhatsApp features early, the Facebook-owned messaging platform has submitted this new update through Google Play Beta Programme in…
A group called BlackOasis used it to breach networks in over a dozen countries. Adobe Flash may be on its way out, but apparently, its goodbye tour is going to be marred by security issues just as the software has for most of its existence. Kaspersky Labs reports that a new Adobe Flash vulnerability was…
Sync and share browsing across devices. Windows Phone is on its way out. To no one’s surprise, Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore recently confirmed its demise. In its place, the company has adopted a more pragmatic approach that embeds pieces of its Windows experience in iOS and Android. You can trace this strategy back to 2014, when…
The World Wide Web game industry is growing rapidly and now every second game requires an internet connection to play it. Of course, When we are at home there can not be any problem, however, in public transport or somewhere in the journey, such fun pastime becomes impossible. Someone can download the game just for…
Some 37,000 people downloaded a spam version of the “AdBlock Plus” extension from Google after a fraudulent ad blocking extension snuck through Google Chrome’s verification process and appeared in the Chrome Web Store yesterday. It’s easy to see why Google (and some 37,000 people) were tricked — the developer who packaged the adware into an…
