Researchers tried to do this the right way with no luck so now they are seeing if bad publicity will get the job done. AT&T Directv creates a private wireless network to transfer video, audio and the user interface between it’s wireless slave boxes hanging off the back of your TVs and the DVR that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Russian hacker has confessed in court to hacking the DNC during last year’s election. The Russian web site that is reporting this has not been friendly to Putin, so there are lots of dimensions to this conversation. The web site says that Konstantin Kozlovsky stated that he was doing this on the direction of Russian […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]GCHQ, the British version of the NSA created a program around 2008 that hacked into Yahoo’s network and captured stills of video chats being conducted by Yahoo users. So as not to overload GCHQ’s servers, the software only stored one image per video session every 5 minutes. Still, in a 6 month period, they captured […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While people are purchasing Internet of Things devices at record numbers, most people are not looking at the security implications of them. Given that, here is something to ponder. Apple, like every other company on the planet, is trying to capitalize on the IoT craze. They sell software that allows developers to build software to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One more time, Microsoft has released an emergency patch to plug a hole in the software that is supposed to protect you from the bad guys. The Windows Defender family of products (including Microsoft Security Essentials, as well as Endpoint Protection, Forefront Endpoint Protection, and Exchange Server 2013 and 2016) has to open the files that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, home to Charlotte, was hit with a ransomware attack that the county was clearly unprepared to handle. The good news, if there is any in a situation like this, is that the attackers only compromised about 48 out of the county’s 500 servers, but other servers were shut down to make […]
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