Digital Forensics & Cyber Security Blog
Digital Forensics & Cyber Security Blog
DNA Testing Service MyHeritage Leaks User Data of 92 Million Customers
Account data tied to 92 million users of the genealogy and DNA testing service MyHeritage were found on a third-party “private” server in a breach that exposed usernames and passwords of customers. The breach is the largest since last year’s Equifax leak of 147.9 million pieces of private data ranging from Social [...]
D-Day: Courage. Devotion. Technology.
Courage. Devotion. Duty. They are the words most often used to describe the brave Allied troops who landed on Normandy 74 years ago and helped win World War II. Not to be forgotten, though, is this word: Technology. World War II was won not just with courage, devotion and duty, [...]
Facebook Rebuts New NYT Investigation Into Data Sharing
Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Sunday rejected claims by the New York Times that it had allowed Apple and other major device makers “deep” access to users’ personal data saying any such links were tightly controlled and largely subject to users’ consent. Facebook shares fell 1.3 percent to $191.50 before the [...]
‘Words With Friends’ Leads To An Unlikely Friendship
An unlikely friendship that formed between a 22-year-old man and an 80-year-old woman has broken the internet with its wholesomeness. After playing more that 300 games together on Words With Friends, Spencer Sleyon and his opponent Rosalind met IRL in Florida on Friday. It was visible proof that strangers on the [...]
Gaming Granny Isabel Martinotti is Living Her Best Life at 82
Like many women at her age, Isabel Martinotti, 82, is a doting grandmother. Unlike her peers, she is also an avid video gamer who has garnered internet fame in her native Argentina for handling a console with the dexterity of a teenager. "I'm the 'Gamer Grandma' [...]
Google Duplex Makes Your Life Easier by Making It More Difficult for Others
The most talked-about feature debuted during Google’s I/O developer conference this week is “Duplex,” an AI system that can mimic actual human speech with eerie, accurate results. The point of the system, at least in Google’s onstage demos, was to use Duplex as a concierge service, calling phone numbers and [...]
An Abandoned Toddler Finds Comfort in Police Officer
“It was just human instinct.” A Georgia police officer is in the spotlight for showing kindness to a hospitalized toddler. The police officer, James Hurst, an officer with the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department, was tasked with escorting the toddler to a local hospital for a medical care after the child had [...]
Utah’s ‘Zion Curtain’ Falls And And Bars Are Celebrating
The sound of breaking glass reverberated through Utah on Saturday as the state's so-called Zion Curtain liquor law came crashing down. H.B. 442, a sweeping piece of alcohol reform legislation the Utah State Legislature passed in March, means some restaurants can take down the partitions meant to block the view [...]
Salt Lake City Brothers Arrested on Child Pornography Charges
(KUTV) -- Two brothers from Salt Lake City have been arrested for allegedly downloading and sharing child pornography. David Craig Jeremy, 66, and Kevin Glen Jeremy, 61, were booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on a total of 28 felony counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. The probable [...]
Happy Bike Month, SLC!
May is Bike Month and the capital city is kicking it off with an outdoor street festival meets health fair in downtown Salt Lake City. The free community event is called Open Streets and kicks off on Saturday, May 5, from 10 am to 4 pm. A section of downtown [...]