In January, the U.S. Department of Defense released the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements, outlining new cybersecurity stipulations for DOD contractors. There is no deadline for compliance with this new standard, but defense contractors should expect to see its specifications [...]
Welcome to the Internet of Creepy Things. A man hacked into an Internet-enabled baby monitor in a home in Cincinnati, Ohio, and started screaming “Wake up baby!” at a 10-month-old girl. Heather Schreck was asleep around midnight in her Hebron [...]
Everyone knows your computer can be hacked, but did you know your monitor might also be used against you? Ang Cui from Red Balloon Security has figured out a way to hack into a popular Dell monitor and [...]
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 [...]
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 '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 [...]
Data breaches happen daily around the world so it's difficult to keep track of all of them. Below we've comprised a list of some of the largest and most damaging data breaches in history. Friend Finder (412 million accounts, 2016) [...]
