Who said Mac users’ data is safe and secure? Swedish hacker, Ulf Frisk, recently disproved this myth. He developed a new device which has the ability to hack even Mac operating systems. But is learnt that this hack can be done only when the system is on …
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A Swedish man pleaded guilty Wednesday to peddling one of the most prevalent spying programs called Blackshades that was widely used by the criminal underground.
Alex Yucel, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of distributing malicious software. He could face a maximum of 10 years in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said. He is expected to be sentenced on May 22.
BlackShades, a remote access trojan, was marketed by its developers as a program for legitimate computer monitoring but was mostly used for stealing payment card data, recording a computer’s keystrokes and secretly controlling webcams. It was sold for between US$ 40 to $ 100.
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Mac users tend to keep their OS more up to date than Windows … FileVault won’t slow your system down—set it up in System Preferences > Security & Privacy. That means if a hacker takes over the account that’s used daily, it won’t have the admin …
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It was unclear where the attack came from. Karlung said Monday that such attacks normally use a virus to prompt several computers to call a site simultaneously to overload it. The virus makes it difficult to stop the attack.
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