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In mid-2016 one of the servers of Hitachi Payment Systems was attacked by malicious software, by which the criminals got data from the ATMs of State Bank of India, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Yes Bank and Axis Bank. Currently, 19 banks and 641 customers noticed fraudulent activities with the cards…

I mostly use Outlook to work with emails and from time to time I feel a necessity to track the opening of my emails by the addressees. There are a lot of email trackers for Gmail but only a few are capable to work with the Windows client correctly. The…

Recently we hit on the article “Who’s downloading pirated papers? Everyone” published in Science Journal. The author reveals the story of Sci-Hub, a pirate website where everyone could find and download articles from leading science journals. The statistics of downloads from September 2015 to February 2016is presented below: As you…

In 2008 at the Valve’s summit on the state of PC gaming in Seattle, president Gabe Newell revealed that his company is not concerned about the threat of piracy in the PC market, including in territories like China and Russia. He said that Valve’s Steam distribution platform and the service…

Files with .SFPDF extension can be opened with a special viewer program — StarForce Reader. Actually the name of the expansion comes from the words StarForce and PDF: SF + PDF. This viewer can open both: SFPDF and usual PDF files. Download StarForce Reader Use SFPDF files are used when it…

The idea of information protection is actual at all times. And it is often necessary to protect not only a document that is kept in a safe or on secured server but as well a message that leaves the confines of the company. For example it can be an email…

Every company owns sensitive information that needs to be protected. First of all it is a client base but also there are know-hows, credentials, personal information and other documents the leakage of which could cause a lot of troubles for business owners. How do companies cope with this? 1. Maximum opacity of contacts and processes It is…

Every day we receive complains from people who want to play old games on computers with new operational systems. StarForce Technologies was founded 17 years ago and during this period copy protection has been set on thousands of games. We ourselves are a part of the fan army who likes…