For weeks, a small team of security researchers and developers have been putting the finishing touches…
Author: Zack Whittaker
In its first cyberoperation against Russian trolls, U.S. takes a gentle approach
Russia has been blamed for shutting down power grids, hacking into critical systems, and more recently…
A Washington ISP exposed the ‘keys to the kingdom’ after leaving a server unsecured
A Washington state internet provider left an unprotected server online without a password, exposing network schematics,…
Saudi Arabia’s ‘Davos in the Desert’ website was hacked and defaced
The website of the Saudi government’s upcoming Future Investment Initiative conference was hacked and defaced with…
A Twitter employee groomed by the Saudi government prompted 2015 state-sponsored hacking warning
An explosive report in The New York Times this weekend sheds new light on the apparent…
Hackers breach Healthcare.gov system, taking files on 75,000 people
A government system used by insurance agents and brokers to help customers sign up for healthcare…
Smart home makers hoard your data, but won’t say if the police come for it
A decade ago, it was almost inconceivable that nearly every household item could be hooked up…
Buggy software in popular connected storage drives can let hackers read private data
Security researchers have found flaws in four popular connected storage drives that they say could let…
MIT researchers say memory splitting breakthrough could prevent another Meltdown or Spectre
Virtually every modern computer processor was thrown under the bus earlier this year when researchers found…