President Serzh Sargsyan received Twitter Vice President Raffi Krikorian

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 Today, President Serzh Sargsyan received the member of Tumo’s Board of Advisers, the Vice President of Twitter Raffi Krikorian having arrived in Armenia on the invitation of Tumo, the center for creative technologies.

The President of Armenia welcomed the guest and stressed the importance of his visit which aims to familiarize with Tumo’s educational program, support in working on the center’s educational contents concerning computer programming, as well as to discuss with Armenian IT specialists world tendencies and challenges which are of concern to the Armenian IT community.

Underscoring that the development of IT field is one of the priorities of the Armenian economy, the president noticed that our compatriots’ gratifying successes in that field represent a guiding principle for the young generation. Serzh Sargsyan stressed the importance of promoting close cooperation with Armenian IT specialists, the exchange of experience and consultations.

Raffi Krikorian presented the president meetings held in the framework of his visit, including the meetings with IT specialists. According to him, they are very promising because there are inspiring examples pertaining to the field development which pave the way for the development of IT field.

2 million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen in massive hack

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Hackers have stolen usernames and passwords for nearly two million accounts at Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo and others, according to a report released this week.

The massive data breach was a result of keylogging software maliciously installed on an untold number of computers around the world, researchers at cybersecurity firm Trustwave said. The virus was capturing log-in credentials for key websites over the past month and sending those usernames and passwords to a server controlled by the hackers.

On Nov. 24, Trustwave researchers tracked that server, located in the Netherlands. They discovered compromised credentials for more than 93,000 websites, including:

  • 318,000 Facebook (FB, Fortune 500) accounts
  • 70,000 Gmail, Google+ and YouTube accounts
  • 60,000 Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500) accounts
  • 22,000 Twitter (TWTR) accounts
  • 9,000 Odnoklassniki accounts (a Russian social network)
  • 8,000 ADP (ADP, Fortune 500) accounts (ADP says it counted 2,400)
  • 8,000 LinkedIn (LNKD)accounts

Trustwave notified these companies of the breach. They posted their findings publicly on Tuesday.

The hacking campaign started secretly collecting passwords on Oct. 21, and it might be ongoing: Although Trustwave discovered the Netherlands proxy server, Miller said there are several other similar servers they haven’t yet tracked down.

Want to know whether your computer is infected? Just searching programs and files won’t be enough, because the virus running in the background is hidden, Miller said. Your best bet is to update your antivirus software and download the latest patches for Internet browsers, Adobe (ADBE) and Java.