Probably everybody  heard about the common fraud "for the grandson". This time the swindlers clients of Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) by e-mail or phone. Clients can receive infected electronic correspondence or can be persuaded to use paid counselling. 

The e-mail message contains information about  the possibility to recalculate the retirement pensions due to the change of provisions of the Funded Pension Act. In order to authenticate the message which is supposed to be allegedly sent from ZUS, the e-mail contains contact address. Also phone calls are being made and clients get the offer to meet the representative of Social Insurance Institution to recalculate the retirement pensio

According to the latest NIK report, the number of cats in pounds increased over a few years. 

Are cats owners aware of the threats to their animals, away from the safe territory which is our home? 

Above all, the road traffic, animals are very often victims of road accidents. Equip the cat with flashy collar, it can decrease the risk of being hit by the car, drivers will more quickly notice such animal after dark. 

Make sure that our cat has a collar with address and instilled chip. If the animal goes missing we increase the odds of tracking it down. 

District prosecutor's office in Warsaw informed on 26.08.2016 that employees of a few bailiff's offices downloaded a few hundred thousand of records from PESEL database. The investigation is conducted by the Internal Security Agency. It is known that this practice lasted from March 2015. Even a few hundred thousand citizens can face the consequences of the data leak. They can be unaware of the fact that the problem concerns them. 

What data are in PESEL database? 

Data contain, among others, date and place of birth, citizenship, but above all the name and the surname, series and the number of ID, PESEL number, name of parents and the current place of the registered residence. <

The virus attacks insidiously, we receive ordinary looking notification that somebody marked us in the comment. After the click on the notification, we are moved to the content which "was put in Google documents ". By clicking this link we download malicious software. 

The virus works as spider web and can send malicious software on Facebook through previously  recalled marking of the friend in the comment, by sending links in the chat or publishing posts with the link on the board. 

What are we threatened with?

The virus can encrypt our files on the hard disk. After the click on such a file, we will get the message that dat

Have you heard about Shuabang campaigns, widespread in China? 

The Google company has a series of securities which enable to detect and block fake users of the Google Play Store. 

However, the Trojan creators  effectively bypassed this protection, on the level of devices which have access to administrator rights (root). Trojan is trying to impersonate the behaviour of the real user in the Play store. 

Trojan gets to the device such as smartphone or tablet through the Leech tool, giving rights to the user's device. Thanks to that, cybercriminals have access to our passwords or authorizing certifica

Swindlers impersonating the operator send texts informing about enabled service. If we text back we will lose significant amounts of money from our account. 

The text  informs of about enabled service with jokes, in order to disable the service, the swindler induces us to text back. If we text back, such text will cost us an arm and a leg- even up to the amount of about 80 PLN. 

We can also often receive a text encouraging to the participation in the contest. In the contents of the text  we also receive the information about the cost of the reply. It is often not a large sum, for example 1.22 PLN with VAT. However, at the end of the message th

We have recently informed about swindlers impersonating ZUS (Social Insurance institution)or also PEKAO S.A. Bank

PZU warns its customers about false e-mail messages informing about alleged arrears for PZU. 

Like always, the contents of the message encourage the recipient to click the placed link to "invoices". 

Downloading and starting the file will cause the infection of our computer with malicious software. 

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Skimmer - the cover put on payment card slot in the ATM. 

At the end of May, the residents o

The purpose of the Antiterrorist  act which entered into force on 25.07.2016, was increasing the safety of citizens, among others, by imposing on cellular phones network operators duty of assigning the pre-paid card to a given person or company. 

During the registration of the SIM card, the subscriber is required to give his name, surname, PESEL number, the series and the number of ID. The number can be registered to the person who turned  14, people under this age can register number to their legal guardian. 

According to the estimates shared by a mobile network operator, the necessity to disclose the personal data can concerns as many as 15 million Po

In United States there is absolute frenzy for the Pokemon Go game. 

Pokemon Go is officially available in Poland, in the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOeZBW9Lwos 

But while downloading the game on our smartphone, we can be unpleasantly surprised. 

The ESET company warns about the false Pomekon Ultimate Go application which can entirely paralyse the work of our smartphone. 

After installing the application, it renames itself for the Network Pi at once. Starting the application causes blocking of the smartphone. We are for

Researchers from the Birmingham University along with Kasper&Oswald GmbH  company presented findings of the research concerning  the safety of cars remote controls at one of scientific conferences. 

The findings are surprising. In order to get to the car from the Volkswagen group, burglars had to use radio unit to break digital securities of the car. 

The scientists discovered that from the central locking remote control, it was possible to intercept signals and clone them. To generate the opening signal of the car door ,the burglar has to be in the distance of at least 100 metres from the victim, in order to intercept the signal of the remote control. 

It is obvious that the mobile phone in the hand of the driver during the ride is a big threat on the road. Texting, checking e-mails or speaking without hands-free set while driving can lead to a tragedy on the road. Such behaviour increases the accident risk on the roadway four times. 

And what about using mobile phones by pedestrians? Does it pose great threat while crossing the street? 

Police draw attention to the fact that young people are way more focused on listening to music, checking their social media profiles or e-mails than on what is happening on the road. 

The number of accidents caused by pedestrians using mobile phones is increa

Watch out for false e-mail  messages- the Pekao S.A. bank warns 

After the phishing attack on WZBK Bank clients- https://lost24.pl/post/52/atak-phishingowy-na-klientow-bz-wbk , cybercriminals decided to impersonate PEKAO S.A. bank. 

PEKAO S.A Bank. warns against false e-mail messages which could make their way to the mailboxes of their clients. 

The messages contain information about the offer connected with issuing the cash credit. There is a attachment in the form of .doc file containing a schedule of credit repayments. 

Messages seem to give impress

Watch out for the company from Bytom which sends cash on delivery parcels to get easy money. 

Internet users warn each other against SET-BET Kazimierz Sławski company. The company sends cash on delivery parcel to the amount from 130 PLN. The entire problem is the fact that nobody ordered anything from the company. 

It seem that if somebody didn't order anything, they won't pick it up. However, swindlers mainly count on companies, where it is harder to establish which employee ordered something and the parcel is being paid. It is possible that we order numerous goods and we will pick the parcel up by force of habit or an unaware household member will pick it up. 

Do you remember our recent entry on the blog, concerning  the implemented duty of SIM cards registration? 

Not all of us know what does the process of SIM cards registration looks like, and the swindlers make use of our ignorance. Swindlers impersonating the operators employees call the clients offering the registration of the SIM card, without the necessity to leave your home. 

By doing so they try to extort personal details such as the address, ID number and PESEL number. We remind our article concerning the theft of our personal details. 

The other method of extorting the personal details is sending out texts containing information

Another virus on Facebook. It is not the first attack on social media portal users which we wrote about https://lost24.pl/post/55/grozny-wirus-na-facebooku. 

From the beginning of October the virus rages on Facebook. 

How does the virus work? The infected person sends to his/her friends a characteristic messages on the chat or posts on our wall. 

Certainly the messages are constructed in order to attract the recipients. It consists of our profile picture with the icon imitating the video entitled by our name. 

if we click on the placed link, we will be redirected to YouTube, where we can see information about the lack