Jan 26, 2019 | Hacking, Radio Show, Security
How A Hacked Phone May Have Led Killers To Khashoggi Jamal Khashoggi probably thought the messages he was sending to fellow Saudi dissident Omar Abdulaziz were hidden, cloaked in WhatsApp security. In reality they were compromised — along with the rest of Abdulaziz’s...
Jan 26, 2019 | Computers, Radio Show, Security
DNC Says Russian Hackers Hit It Again With Phishing Effort After Midterms It seems the hacks keep coming. The Democratic National Committee said this week that following last year’s midterm elections, Russian hackers again took aim at the organization. “In...
Jan 26, 2019 | Passwords, Radio Show, Security
Biggest Data Breach Yet Has Leaked 773 Million Emails. Here’s What You Need To Do Now Looks like it’s time to change your passwords, again: security experts have flagged up a monster data breach made up of some 773 million email addresses and 21 million...
Jan 19, 2019 | Radio Show, Security
For Owners Of Amazon’s Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching Too THE “SMART HOME” of the 21st century isn’t just supposed to be a monument to convenience, we’re told, but also to protection, a Tony Stark-like bubble of vigilant algorithms and...
Jan 19, 2019 | Radio Show
Amazon Says 100 Million Alexa Devices Have Been Sold — What’s Next? More than 100 million devices with Alexa on board have been sold. That’s the all-too-rare actual number that Amazon’s SVP of devices and services, Dave Limp, revealed to me earlier this week. That’s...
Jan 19, 2019 | Radio Show
A Hijacking Wave Is Taking Over Company Websites At An Almost Unprecedented Scale Federal authorities and private researchers are alerting companies to a wave of domain hijacking attacks that use relatively novel techniques to compromise targets at an almost...