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

At the beginning of July, there was a hacker attack on Netia - one of the telecommunication operators. The result of breaking into the Netia's web servers was the theft and publicizing of customers and users data from forms on the Netia's website. 

Netia started warning customers whose data were stolen and made public online. 

What happens to the stolen personal details of customers? 

Data can be sold to direct marketing companies. From now on, the victims of the theft can receive spam e-mails or what's more they can become victims of phishing. Data can also be used to impersonate a given person - here we remind abo

Have you ever considered equipping your pet with the GPS transmitter? 

Microchips for animals have become a standard - rice grain-size integrated circuit with 15 digit number which is individually assigned to every tagged animal. 

What if our animal goes missing? Chip as little as or so much stores details about the animal itself as well as the owner's data. However, basing only on the chip we cannot locate our animal companion. 

More and more offers connected with GPS transmitters attached to the collar of the animal appear online. The cost of such a locator is placed within the limits of 200-500 PLN. The locator l

Love texts from the stranger - next fraud!

Copying and producing the ID - know your rights 

Check Point company informed about new malware called HummingBad which attacks smartphones. 

What is malware (malicious software)? Generally speaking, it is malicious software which constitutes growing problem for the users of  smartphones  and computers. 

There can be over 10 million Android smartphones infected with  HummingBad. 

How does HummingBad work? 

After infecting our smartphone HummingBad installs additional harmful appl

Have you ever made your ID  available to other people? Have you ever allowed other people to copy your ID? 

Inspector General for Personal Data Protection received information about improper registration of pre-paid SIM cards. Inspector reminds that the operators must not COPY or SCAN our ID. 

Do you know in what situations, according to binding law, is it possible to refuse the copying or producing the identity card? 

When we want to hire sports equipment such as a kayak or water bike, it is not sufficient to produce your ID or driving licence but sometimes you are asked to leave it as well. 

Alarming report of Supreme Chamber of Control  (NIK) - about the prevention of animals homelessness - from June 2016. 

The number of animals in the pounds grows rapidly. The new report of NIK indicates that 

communes ineffectively prevent animals homelessness. Many communes did not implement plans of animals tagging and very often did not provide obligatory sterilization or castration done in the pounds. Out of  11 controlled communes, as many as 9 didn't use the possibility of implementing the plan of the animals tagging. Report data are terrifying, only one fourth of the caught animals have found the new owner. 

The holistic plan of tagging animals and

More and more often we use free hot-spots. However, such points do not have to offer  free access to the Internet. 

Often such points are for one purpose - to gain access to our data. Cybercriminals wait to get data to the bank account, or also a mailbox and social media portals. 

We have to especially watch out for hotspots abroad. Not every free Wi-Fi can give us savings concerning the data transfer, on the contrary someone can steal our digital identity 

Remember that majority of free Wi-Fi networks isn't protected at all, by logging to the bank or to the mailbox , data can be easily intercepted. The good example can be redirecting

We don't know if you regularly follow the news on  BBC channel. 

As everybody knows, the Pokemon Go frenzy is at its prime. We have already showed he famous video recorded by New York youtuber about how Americans went crazy about this game. 

BBC television informs that the police record hundreds of accidents connected with Pokémon Go. 

TV channel alerts that everything is caused by the lack of attention of the gamers. 

A good example can be 290 reports recorded in England and Wales in July. Fans of the game are victims of the theft and assaults. What is interesting, also the game

Swindlers impersonating HBO try to extort money. 

There are more and more fans of "Games of Thrones" with every season. Polish radio station Anti-radio informs that the 6th season of the popular series was watched by around  23 million viewers. However, some viewers decided to illegally download the episodes. 

People who received the e-mail from swindlers impersonating  HBO could become victims of the fraud. Torrentfreak.com portal published pattern of  the e-mail message received by some users. The content of the e-mail  informs that on account of illegal downloading of the file from the given IP address, the user

Watch out for dynamic Facebook group which offers coupons to the chemist for  the amount of 1000 PLN. 

People who got tempted by the offer of hackers could lose the account on the social media portal, as well as up to several dozen PLN for premium texts (we wrote about them in one of our entries). 

The swindlers use the stolen accounts of your friends and send out the invitations to the group which offers gift coupons to popular drugstores. After clicking the link, we are moved to the website which enables hackers to steal our Facebook login name and password. 

What's more, to choose the specific offer we have to send two premium texts

Drones are getting more and more popular thus more and more often we can hear news reports on threats they pose. An incident which took place at Okęcie airport can be such an example. Pilots noticed the flying object - the drone next to the piloted plane. Controllers were forced to redirect the machine to other runway and report the case to the police. 

We should be aware that there are some binding regulations (aviation law) about piloting the drones. If we do not observe these rules, we can spend up to 5 years in prison. 

Every drone operator must buy the liability insurance for minimal guaranteed amount or higher amount stipulated by the Minister of Transpo

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.