Hacker Using Nest Camera Threatened to Kidnap Baby — Father Learns This Happens Frequently
By B.N. Frank A recent opinion piece from Mercury News reveals more of the same – hackers continue to use wireless devices to threaten people…
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The Biggest Internet Security Breakthrough in Decades
By George Gilder The current internet infrastructure was built for a simple purpose: sharing information. The information superhighway was launched by academics to allow researchers…
U.S. Hospitals Turning Away Patients and Canceling Surgeries Due to Ransomware Attacks
By B.N. Frank Being targeted by cybercriminals is no laughing matter – especially for health care facilities. Non-payment of ransomware puts lives at immediate risk….
FDA Warns Again About Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities That May Put Medical Devices and Hospital Networks at Risk for Remote Attack
By B.N. Frank Experts have determined that anything wirelessly connected has the potential of being hacked – including medical devices and implants. In 2007, Former…
ZDNet: Study Reveals IoT Vulnerability to Cyberattacks Is Increasing and Includes Gas Pumps and Smart Meters
By B.N. Frank Internet of Things (IoT) has a 74% failure rate. Security experts have been warning for many years that installing it could cause…
Duke Energy Reported 650 Million Attempted Cyberattacks in 2017. Damn “Smart” Meters and Grids…
By B.N. Frank According to a recent report issued by The U.S. Dept of Energy, cyberattacks are on the rise – to put it mildly….
5 Million DoorDash Customers Had Data Stolen In Hack Attack
By Tyler Durden About 4.9 million customers, Dashers, and merchants who joined DoorDash, an on-demand food delivery service, before April 2018, had their personal information…
How to Protect Yourself From This New Form of Ransom
By Joe Jarvis It was just another boring workday at the municipal offices. Maybe this employee hadn’t even had his second cup of coffee. Still…
How To Protect Yourself From Microphone And Camera Hacking
By Sara Tipton Regardless of what type of computer or smartphone you use, there are obvious privacy concerns. This day and age, it’s important to…
The New Target That Enables Ransomware Hackers to Paralyze Dozens of Towns and Businesses at Once
By Renee Dudley On July 3, employees at Arbor Dental in Longview, Washington, noticed glitches in their computers and couldn’t view X-rays. Arbor was one…
Same Sh*t Different Day — Internet of Things Warnings from Security Experts Include Hacking, Death, etc.
By B.N. Frank Whether they know ahead of time or not, people who install Internet of Things (IoT) technology in their homes are choosing to…
Google, Twitter, Facebook Met Government Officials To Devise Election Measures
By Aaron Kesel Representatives for Google, Facebook and Twitter met with DHS officials at Facebook’s headquarters to devise 2020 election measures against the spread of…
iPhones Hacked As Malware Infected “Thousands Of Users A Week” For Years
By Tyler Durden Thousands of iPhone users per week have been subject to an unprecedented 2.5-year hacking operation which was finally disrupted in January, according to researchers at…
US Military Secretly Hacked Iran’s Paramilitary Force In June Cyberstrike
By Tyler Durden The strike was President Trump’s alternative to a recommended military airstrike, the Iranian deaths from which which would not be “proportionate to shooting…