Meet the 50th Mersenne prime. MICHELLE STARR 5 JAN 2018 A newly discovered prime number has broken the record for the largest ever found, coming in at a whopping 23,249,425 digits. It’s called M77232917, and it’s the 50th prime number … Read More
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Hundreds of GPS Location Tracking Services Leaving User Data Open to Hackers
Security researchers have unearthed multiple vulnerabilities in hundreds of GPS services that could enable attackers to expose a whole host of sensitive data on millions of online location tracking devices managed by vulnerable GPS services. The series of vulnerabilities discovered … Read More
Huge Flaws Affect Nearly Every Modern Device; Patch Could Hit CPU Performance
The first week of the new year has not yet been completed, and very soon a massive vulnerability is going to hit hundreds of millions of Windows, Linux, and Mac users worldwide. According to a blog post published yesterday, the … Read More
Uber Concealed Cyberattack That Exposed 57 Million People’s Data
Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber Technologies Inc., a massive breach that the company concealed for more than a year. This week, the ride-hailing company ousted Joe Sullivan, chief security officer, and one … Read More
Boeing 757 Testing Shows Airplanes Vulnerable to Hacking, DHS Says
A team of government, industry and academic officials successfully demonstrated that a commercial aircraft could be remotely hacked in a non-laboratory setting last year, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official said Wednesday at the 2017 CyberSat Summit in … Read More
In Defense of GE’s Airplanes
On September 11, 2001 a customer of mine was flown into one of the World Trade Center twin towers. His name was David Angell and he was the co-creator of the TV show “Frasier.” Just a week earlier he, his partner, lawyer and … Read More
Practical cybersecurity for law firms: How to batten down the hatches
We’re quickly approaching 2018, and a week doesn’t go by without another variant of malware causing havoc across the globe. First it was the WannaCry ransomware worm, which infected more than 230,000 computer systems in over 150 countries, demanding ransom … Read More
FedEx: NotPetya Cost $300m, Wrecked Q1 Earnings
FedEx, the worldwide package delivery giant, said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday that the NotPetya ransomware outbreak in late June has cost it an estimated $300 million dollars and forced the company to miss its fiscal first quarter earnings. … Read More
An FDA First: Cyber Recall for Implantable Device
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued an alert about the first recall of a network-connected implantable device due to cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The agency is instructing patients with certain implantable cardiac pacemakers from St. Jude Medical – now owned … Read More