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

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