Sep 21, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, General Security
A team of researchers was able to hack the controls of a Tesla Model S from a distance of 12 miles – adjusting the mirrors, locks and even slamming on the brakes. The Chinese security researchers from Keen Security Labs alerted Tesla to the vulnerability just over a...
Sep 20, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security
The mainstream media is catching on to a post from last month in RedmondMag.com – about Cisco customers being hacked by “NSA Hacking Tools” – or, to put it another way, tools supposedly leaked from NSA hacker toolkits. By Kurt Mackie –...
Sep 19, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security
Oliver Stone’s movie about Edward Snowden, which opened on Friday, September 16th, 2016, has a lot of people looking back at one of the biggest information security breaches in US history, the one we learned about in June, 2013. That’s when the UK-based Guardian...
Sep 14, 2016 | Browser Security, General Security
There are expected to be 350 million Wi-Fi hotspots around the world by 2018. While this brings with it a high level of convenience, there are significant security risks as well. With that in mind, we look at the five top questions you should be asking before...
Sep 14, 2016 | Cyber-Crime, General Security
Yesterday Microsoft released some 14 patch bundles to correct at least 50 flaws in various Windows and associated software systems, including a zero-day bug in Internet Explorer. About half of the updates released by Microsoft Tuesday earned the company’s most dire...
