Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 18:26:42 +0000

Why throw a bunch of junk traffic at a service when all it takes to stall it out is just a few bytes?

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 21:07:26 +0000

You don’t even have to click anything.

Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 20:51:25 +0000

One cybersecurity threat that’s proven difficult for wireless carriers to combat? Their own employees.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 18:42:24 +0000

RSA encryption has been around for decades. Unfortunately, so have bad implementations that leave it less secure.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 11:00:00 +0000

5G was supposed to offer new protections against so-called stingray surveillance devices. New research shows it’s anything but.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 02:29:02 +0000

In a criminal complaint, the FBI detailed how a hacker allegedly stole data from 100 million people—and how she got caught.

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 16:36:02 +0000

Microsoft’s critical vulnerability remains unpatched in hundreds of thousands of computers, and may already be exploited in secret.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 18:13:32 +0000

Medtronic and the FDA left an insulin pump with a potentially deadly vulnerability on the market—until researchers who found the flaw showed how bad it could be.