Deanna Recktenwald may be alive today because of her Apple Watch. The 18-year-old from Lithia, Florida, was at church April 22 when she got a notification from her Apple Watch: Her resting heart rate had skyrocketed to 160 beats [...]
PDF files can be weaponized by malicious actors to steal Windows credentials (NTLM hashes) without any user interaction, and only by opening a file, according to Assaf Baharav, a security researcher with cyber-security Check Point. This means an end user who opens [...]
Investment comes amid warnings hackers linked to Russia and other countries targeting UK's critical national infrastructure The NHS is to spend £150m to bolster its defences against the “growing threat” of cyber attacks following the chaos caused by the WannaCry virus. Amid [...]
Apple has long been rumored to be working on a pair of augmented reality glasses, but a report today suggests that they’re looking to compete with Google, Microsoft and Facebook in the virtual reality space as well. CNET reports that Apple has [...]
A 'smart' aquarium gadget gave hackers access to a casino's high-roller database It sounds like something straight out of Ocean's Eleven but sadly it's another example of businesses failing to protect themselves against the hacking of every day devices. More [...]
The upcoming mandatory requirement to disclose data breaches will help address some of the anxieties that Canadians have about cybersecurity and data protection, and may prescribe some precautions that organizations can take for remediation. What would these precautions look like? [...]
When Jon Stubbs walked out of the Utah State Prison in the fall of 2016, he planned to find work, repair broken relationships and never get in trouble with the law again. So far, he’s done it. “Prison changed me,” [...]
The problem of pet owners not cleaning up after their animals might make that a reality for one town in Colorado. Laurie Best, a senior planner with the town of Breckenridge, CO, said earlier this month that using forensic testing [...]
If you search for the tag #BlueWhaleChallenge on social media you'll get a message like these: As someone who has never seen this type of warning on Instagram, Twitter or YouTube I found it incredibly alarming. The [...]
And it's working. Across the country, police officers have shot and killed at least over 1,000 people since 2015. There is currently a national debate over police reform sparked by the 2014 killing of Michael Brown. But [...]
