Hacked medical devices make for scary headlines. Dick Cheney ordered changes to his pacemaker to better protect it from hackers. Johnson & Johnson warned customers about a security bug in one of its insulin pumps last fall. And St. Jude … Read More
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Dozens of iOS Apps Vulnerable to WiFi Snooping
Dozens of applications for Apple’s mobile devices are vulnerable to WiFi snoopers, a security researcher reported this week. Will Strafach, CEO of the Sudo Security Group, identified 76 popular iOS apps available at Apple’s App Store that were vulnerable to … Read More
Why encryption use doesn’t match data protection needs
Too many organizations pay only lip service to the practice of encrypting important information, increasing the likelihood that they will suffer a cyber attack. According to a new study from Osterman Research, while email encryption is a “critical” or “very … Read More
A Smarter Anti-hacker Defense
Brian Selfridge walked into a hospital owned by a midsize health system in the Northeast, sat down in a conference room and plugged into a wired internet connection. After about an hour, he found a database on the hospital’s network … Read More
Russian government hackers do not appear to have targeted Vermont utility, say people close to investigation
As federal officials investigate suspicious Internet activity found last week on a Vermont utility computer, they are finding evidence that the incident is not linked to any Russian government effort to target or hack the utility, according to experts and … Read More
US Lawmaker: Utility’s Malware Discovery Points to ‘Rampant Russian Hacking’
By VOA News December 31, 2016 A U.S. congressman from Vermont said Saturday that Russian malware code found in a computer belonging to a major state electric utility was further evidence of “rampant Russian hacking.” Democratic Representative Peter Welch called … Read More
Enigma machine sells for a record $463,500
One of the rarest surviving Enigma cipher machines has sold at auction for a record price of US$463,500. An artifact of one of the most exciting episodes of World War II, the fully operational Enigma M4 was made in 1943 … Read More
Saudi central bank hit by hackers’ ‘digital bomb’, risking payments
State-sponsored hackers who unleashed a digital bomb in key parts of Saudi Arabia’s computer networks over the last two weeks damaged systems at the country’s central bank, known as the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency, according to two people briefed on … Read More
Gone: Russian Central Bank hacked; $31 million stolen
A couple of weeks ago it was reported that some top Russian banks suffered a series of massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Now, hackers are upping their game every passing day and this time they have chosen to … Read More