Jul 18, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Mobile Security
ESET has discovered the first ever fake lockscreen app on Google Play, named Pokemon GO Ultimate. As its characteristics suggest, it deliberately locks the screen right after the app is started, forcing the user to restart the device. Unfortunately, in many cases a...
Jul 16, 2016 | General Security
Pokémon Go has proved incredibly successful in the US and other playing regions. The massive and rapid uptake by consumers of the augmented reality game resulted in its creator Nintendo stock jumped by 70 percent, boosting its market value from £13bn to £19.6bn....
Jul 15, 2016 | General Security
Enough Is Enough (EIE), an Internet safety organization, praised the McDonald’s corporation® for their decision to filter public Wi-Fi from pornography and child pornography. EIE launched its “National Porn Free Wi-Fi” campaign” in the fall of 2014, with nearly...
Jul 15, 2016 | General Security
Since 2015, thousands of aspiring Pokémon trainers have been waiting for the release of Pokémon GO, the augmented reality game that will allow players to catch hidden Pokémon’s in the real world and conquer “gyms” through the internet, traveling both physically as...
Jul 14, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
Multiple news agencies are reporting (quietly we think) that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was hacked between 2010 and 2013 – and that the US Government tried to cover it up! WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Chinese government likely hacked...
