During holidays we more often travel on the trains. However, during our journey as well as at the station we have to be extremely cautious - pickpockets only wait for the chance. They know that the passengers can have large amounts of money or valuables. Everyone usually takes the tablet  or laptop to use while travelling. 

In our earlier article - we wrote that thieves often create artificial crowd, especially when you are getting on or off the train or bus. 

While going by train we should pay attention to our luggage, do not le

In many people's mailboxes, also ours, appeared false mails with the demand to verify the BZ WBK account access, It can be achieved  by clicking the link. The link redirects us to a fake website, very similar to the official BZWBK24 logging website. Thanks to the fake website, swindlers want to extort our logging data to the bank account. That way they receive the easy access to perform unauthorized operations on the account of bank client. 

It is another phishing attack on clients of this bank. The swindlers could do this easily because money transfers by Przelew24 did not require confirmation with text password. After this  incident, the bank restored this precaution. 

The Europeans are afraid of terrorism escalation.  The governments undertake steps which should protect us against the next attack. The Australians also decided to take care of their own safety by the special mobile application and the special website. The residents of Canberra are informed  about dangerous places in their city. 

Empty streets and dark corners can cause anxiety, especially when somebody comes back late at night but thanks to the special website, Canberra residents know which place can be dangerous. 

The website is managed by Women's Centre for Health Matters foundation and financed by Australian government of capital territory. 

Have you ever wondered if you can keep the found item with no fear? Or maybe we should give back only valuable items? 

Imagine such a situation - we find the mobile phone on the street, it seems to us, that since we found it we can keep it and use it without any consequences. After certain time police knock on our door. The person who lost the phone, reported it and we are ordered out to the police station to give an explanation how did we come into possession of that thing. 

What are we threatened with? 

We can be accused of converting the found item. This offence carries a penalty of fine, restriction of liberty or the imprisonment up to 1 ye

Meeting a thief face to face in the entrance hall. Everyone would be frightened.

The first obstacle - intercom. Who doesn't  open the door from the stairwell when we hear that somebody brought  leaflets.

Next, it is enough for the thief to go from floor to floor, check who

Integrated systems of intelligent house or building management are more and more often exposed to the attacks from the outside by so-called cybercriminals. 

Cybercriminals can for example trigger the shutdown alarm or put the heating system out of order. 

Two public facilities' heating systems were victims of DDos attack (dispersed denial of service) in Finland. The attack by cybercriminals entirely paralysed the computers responsible for the inspection of the heating and the circulation of warm water in buildings. 

Valtia company, which  managed these two buildings, confirmed the concentrated attack on the network resulting in overloa

Online shopping - fast, comfortable with competitive prices. However, online shopping calls for some precautions. 

Police reports indicate that the practice of swindling through web sites is more and more frequent.

Police in Chrzanów completed the proceeding connected with the Internet swindler who offered mobile phones on the auction portal in very attractive prices. Yet, customers  after sending money to the indicated bank  account, did not receive the ordered goods . 

A swindler who also offered mobile phones and tablets for sale in attractive prices below their market value, can be another example. Purchasers received neither orde

Statistical data are terrifying. Every year, all over the world, more than 10 million animals get lost. How can we avoid losing our favourite animal companion? 

When going for the walk we should attach the address tag to the animal's collar. Remember to include our telephone number there. 

The behaviour of an animal is also important. The address tag can always come off and the chip will stay. Another interesting option is a tattoo made on the ear or the groin of the dog. We will find the list of tattoos at the branch of a kennel club. To read out the individual code from the chip we have to go to the veterinary clinic or to services equipped with the special reader e.g.

We don't know whether everyone heard about probably the biggest hacking attack in the history of Internet - personal data of half a billion users were stolen by  cybercriminals.

Personal data of half a billion users in the hands of cybercriminals. It is probably the biggest hacking attack in the history of Internet. 

After the period of two years the Yahoo portal admitted that they had become victims of the attack by cybercriminals. As a result of this attack personal data of 500 million users fell into the wrong hands. Yahoo informed the users about this attack by e-mail, advising to the change the password. 

According to Yahoo, the secret ser

Do you know what happens if you connect to the hotspot of unknown origin? 

It was proven that using the touch screen in the phone disturbs the wi-fi signal and it can be used for watching what we type. For example, a PIN code in our bank application. 

Controlled attack on 3 types of mobile phones in order to get the PIN number in the popular Alipay payment system which in 2015 had as many as 900 million users. 

The test was supposed to prove that using the touch screen in the mobile phone disturbs the wi-fi signal which can lead to intercepting what we type by third parties. 

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As a result of the attack by hackers against the Dyn company which  manages the servers of many popular services, Internet users had a big deal of a problem. Two days ago probably many of you could not log onto Twitter or also watch favourite series on Netflix. Popular services as Twitter, Netflix, Reddit, the PayPal or Playstation Network fell victim of the attack on the DNS system thanks to which we can open a website. The attack consisted in bombing servers with enquiries with the use of bots, as a  result all free sources were used up. 

Dyn company restored functioning of attacked servers after a few hours but  it also warns that a consecutive phase of the attack takes place. 

Remember that the stolen/lost ID can be used for extorting the loan or cash credit, as well as to hire-purchase. 

How to react when we lose documents? 

- in case of the theft of the document we have to notify the police, there we will get a document confirming that we reported the theft.

The document will have to be presented at the commune office. 

- we notify the closest organ of the commune or the consular institution, when we are outside of the borders of our country. At the office we will get a document confirming the loss of the ID and we will be obligated to form a new one. 

Everyone realizes that with the portable memory the computer can be infected but can flashdisk physically damage our machine? 

Carrying out the unusual project which tries to draw attention to the low awareness of motherboards producers or entire computer units, provokes controversies. The creators want to make us aware of dangers the USB port itself. That is why, they created USB Killer 2.0 which will damage our computer literally within seconds. The cost of such a device is almost 50 euros. 

How does the killer PenDrive work? 

While  connecting the pendrive to the USB port, the device starts charging cond

Malware campaign was disclosed , by using the gaps in store software, the malicious javascript code "was injected" to subpages of the shop. 

Among victims was one of American shops of Republican party which volume of visitors estimates to 350 000 visits monthly and data of credit cards of customers was transmitted to Russia. The profit of criminals is estimated for about 600 000 dollars. 

According to the sekurak portal almost 6 thousand shops are skimmed for a lot of months, there are also domains from Poland. 

Trekker Sport shop, which was also affected by this problem, conducted the analysis in the testing environment. Basing on th

To take loan without our knowledge is often associated with stealing ID. We wrote numerous times about the theft of the identity and about consequences it can bring about. 

However, the example which we want to present is completely different. 

Ten instalments of about 180 PLN, so much was seen on falsified forms from the bank which were received by an elderly man from Elbląg. On the falsified letter from the bank everything seemed to be in perfect order i.e. the surname or the place of residence, but the man did not take any loan and also he did not hire-purchase anything.