Digital Forensics & Cyber Security Blog
Digital Forensics & Cyber Security Blog
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 [...]
An Apple Watched May Have Saved a Young Woman’s Life
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 per minute, well above a normal rate that the Mayo Clinicsays [...]
PDF Files Can Be Abused to Steal Windows Credentials
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 a PDF attachment they did not ask for can be [...]
NHS to Spend £150m on Cyber Security to Bolster Defences After WannaCry Attack
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 warnings that hackers linked to Russia and other countries have been targeting [...]
Apple Reportedly Building a ’16K’ VR Headset
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 its eye set on the 2020 release of a wireless [...]
Hacking by Fish Tank?
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 and more those innocent internet of things are being compromised [...]