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Solar plane lands in New York City

A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said.  The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website.  Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
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Apple devices rise in attacks on its operating systems, security experts suggest

According to security firm Symantec, the amount of malware aimed at Apple's mobile operating system (iOS) has more than doubled this year, while threats to Mac computers also rose.  Security firm FireEye also expects 2016 to be a bumper year for Apple malware.  Systems such as Apple Pay could be targeted, it predicts.  Apple is an obvious target for cybercriminals because its products are so popular, said Dick O'Brien, a researcher at Symantec.  While the total number of threats targeting Apple devices remains low compared with Windows and Android, Symantec is seeing the range of threats multiply.  Last year, it was seeing a monthly average of between 10,000 and 70,000 Mac computers infected with malware.  This is far fewer than Windows desktops and we don't want to scaremonger. Apple remains a relatively safe platform but Apple users can no longer be complacent about security, as the number of infections and new threats rise," said Mr O'Brien. ...
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Independent blog site hit by malware

Researchers from Trend Micro found blogs on the website had been modified to install malware known as Cryptesla on readers' devices.  The malware holds files on the host machine to ransom and demands a payment to restore them.  The Independent said it had removed all ads on the site while it investigated.  "It appears that an advert appearing on that blogsite may have included malware," said a spokesman for the newspaper.  "There is no suggestion or evidence that any of our users have been affected by this."  The spokesman said the site affected was an old or "legacy" system that was now rarely visited.  According to Trend Micro, the ransomware has been present on the Independent blogs website since at least 21 November. "We reported it to them on Tuesday - but, as of today, it is still happening," said Raimund Genes, chief technical officer at Trend Micro.  "Now we need to go public to warn people who are not using security s...
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Porn sites hit by malware hidden in adverts

The advertising, apparently for a service called Sex Messenger, also contained tools for identifying whether the user was genuine rather than a bot.  It appeared on porn site xhamster, one of the world's most visited domains.  However the firm said porn sites are no more dangerous than mainstream ones.  The ad has now been removed.  The malware, which also made use of the security of cloud-based platforms to hide what it was doing, worked by directing the user to a fraudulent page once it had determined that they were running Microsoft's Internet Explorer and had identified the device's security settings.  So-called "malvertising" often installs ransomware on to a victim's machine. It loads a page containing false accusations of criminal activity and instructions for paying a fine. "These efforts ensure that only real users will get to see the exploit  kit landing page therefore excluding honeypots and security researchers alike," wrote Ma...
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