This year, the most popular desktop operating system Windows 7 will be 8 years old. For her, this means a quick end to official support.So, it became known that it is scheduled for January 2020. In fact, the main support for this OS ended a couple of years ago, and now it is in the […]
At the end of last year, mobile devices first began to generate more Internet traffic than personal computers. The other day the research company StatCounter has published a new report on the consumption of web traffic by different platforms in the period from March 2012 to March 2017. During these five years, the macOS indicators […]
The international group of experts on cryptography forced the US National Security Agency to abandon the two encryption methods known as Simon and Speck, which the intelligence service proposed to establish as international standards. According to experts from different countries, including Germany, Japan and Israel, the NSA promotes new methods not because of their effectiveness, […]
For ten years now the tournament of hackers Pwn2Own has been held. Its essence lies in the fact that hackers need to crack popular applications, services or operating systems. This year Microsoft Edge, Windows, macOS, Safari, Ubuntu, Adobe Reader and other programs were hacked at the contest. But for several years now Chrome has remained […]
Administrators of various underground hacker forums seriously discuss the ethical side of allowing the sale of extortion software on their sites. According to the research of security companies Anomali and Flashpoint, such discussions periodically take place on hacker sites from the beginning of 2016. This topic became especially active after the harmful campaigns of WannaCry […]