McAffe, company known mostly for its antivirus software, warns about a new virus making rounds on the Google Play Store. The virus's name is LeakerLocker and it is another of the lately ”popular” ransomware. If you are unlucky enough to get infected, LeakerLocker will block your phone and give you an ultimatum - either you pay a hefty ransom ...

Often we find ourselves in a situation when we want to leave a website or application at once. Perhaps we have accidentally entered on the wrong website and are being invaded by malware; maybe our teacher caught us playing Fruit Ninja in class; maybe our little brother looked over our shoulder just when we loaded this juicy XXX clip. Whatever the exact ...

Few months ago I wrote a post about an US photograph penalized with a fine and an arrest after causing an accident in which one person got hurt. Now it looks like the US gov' is not letting the ever more bold drone pilots get away with their flying escapades. One Gene Alan Carpenter, 54-years old from Arizona, has been charged with hundering firemen ...

Tijeras, town in New Mexico. One Eduardo Barros has allegedly beaten up his girlfriend, mother of a child, and was threatening her with a gun. In the midst of horrible situation, Barros asked ”Did you call the sheriffs?”. Woman's response is unknown, but we do know that the question was heard by a smart home device (specific type of the device ...

Instagram's Stories feature have been significantly updated. Now you can respond to somebody's Stories not only with a text message but also with either a picture or a video. All the tools available in an Instagram camera - all the stickers, filters, Boomerang and whatever else is there - will be available for these graphic replies as well, allowing ...

An udentified hacker/s have put the word online; he/she/they have a decryption key that can save any computer attacked by Petya (or NotPetya. Semantics) and they will give it away - of course, not for free. Hacker's price is a pretty steep 100 bitcoins, which translates into a significant sum of 250 thousand dollars. Such key probably belongs to the virus' ...

Citizens of the state of Ohio, get ready to get tech-y! John Kasich, Governor of Ohio, has just signed a new budget. This budget contains a provision that allows delivery robots to travel sidewalks, as well as crossroads, throughout the state. Putting it simply, delivery robots can now move freely across the state. Ohio is the fifth American state to permit ...

Bithumb, a South Korean-based, one of the world's largest cryptocurrencies exchanges, has been recently hacked, resulting in compromising a large number of user accounts and loss of over one million dollars worth of electronic currency. Money was not the thieves' only prize, as they have also stolen personnal information of nearly 32 thousand Bithumb ...

Summer! Time to get out and grab some tan (or to get sweaty and angry in public communication. Eff my life). Heat can be detrimental to a human body, we all realize that, but do we all also know that high (and low) temperatures are bad for electronics? Our wee little smartphones are relatively delicate tools and extreme temperatures can easily harm ...

Well, okay, not today, but soon! Have you ever seen ”Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”? Eponymous factory was a massive complex that spanned many kilometers. Factory's system of fast travel was the Wonkavators, special elevators that could move not only up and down but also in every other direction. That is the kind of device that the German ...

Of course, a large number of these accounts are either fakes or no longer used (because, for example, their owner died), buuuut ”FB has two billion users, but some of them are fake, gone or dead” would not make a good title. Anyway, real or not, Facebook does not plan on letting such a milestone pass without acknowledging it. Social website ...

Yesterday afternoon I had a (dis)pleasure of informing you about Petya, a new and dangerous virus. In summary, Petya is ransomware. Ransomware is a virus that blocks access to your device and only unlocks it after you pay a given sum of money to the hackers who created it, like a ransom. The virus is mostly after company networks, but there are cases ...