Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks

Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 22:45:55 +0000

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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 22:30:55 +0000

In a shift toward transparency, the National Security Agency announced a bug that could have left over 900 million PCs vulnerable to attack.

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 20:38:27 +0000

The Kremlin likely hacked the oil giant. Its next play: selectively release—and even forge—documents. Did the US learn enough from 2016 to ignore them?

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 10:00:00 +0000

As the social media app continues to gain popularity, security researchers are taking a closer look under the hood.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 12:00:00 +0000

It’s been a rough 10 years in cybersecurity—and it’s only getting worse.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 11:30:00 +0000

By exploiting flaws in popular video conferencing hardware from DTEN, attackers can monitor audio, capture slides—and take full control of devices.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 11:30:00 +0000

The flaw would have given attackers an avenue for crashing the app—every time a user opened an infected group thread.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 21:21:40 +0000

A new wave of reports about the home surveillance cameras getting hijacked by creeps is painfully familiar.

Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 23:08:28 +0000

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