Feb 23, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: Health Sciences North Sudbury Ontario What was affected: The computer system of Sudbury, Ontario-based Health Sciences North was infected by a zero-day virus, driving officials to shut down its EHR to contain the infection at 21 Health Science North Hospitals....
Feb 23, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: LocalBitcoins No. of Accounts Breached: 6 as of press time What was affected: It confirmed that the vulnerability allowed the attacker to gain access to an undisclosed number of accounts, although, at press time, it only knew of six cases where users had been...
Feb 23, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: B&Q Stores No. of Accounts Breached: 70,000 What was affected: The breached database contained a list of people who had been caught stealing products from B&Q stores. The document included the names of the offenders, the items they had stolen, the value...
Feb 23, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: Salisbury Maryland Police Department What was affected: A Ransomware attack compromised the department’s entire internal computer network. When it happened: January 9, 2019 How it happened: A “criminal” attacker accessed its network through a longtime...
Feb 23, 2019 | Radio Show
Zillow Wants To Flip Your House With its tan stucco exterior and red tile roof, the Rittenhouse home on South Star Canyon Drive looks a lot like the other houses in Power Ranch, a large planned community southeast of Phoenix. Mark, a meat buyer for a grocery chain,...
Feb 23, 2019 | Radio Show
Facebook Uses Its Apps To Track Users It Thinks Could Threaten Employees And Offices In early 2018, a Facebook user made a public threat on the social network against one of the company’s offices in Europe. Facebook picked up the threat, pulled the user’s...
Feb 23, 2019 | Radio Show
Prevent Procrastination With This Chrome Extension I’ve found myself in a vicious cycle lately. Whenever I have free time to kill, I’ll typically rotate through the same, stale list of websites, sucking up whatever new content comes along to relieve me of my boredom....
Feb 23, 2019 | Radio Show
Why Windows Defender Antivirus Is The Most Deployed In The Enterprise Statistics about the success and sophistication of malware can be daunting. The following figure is no different: Approximately 96% of all malware is polymorphic – meaning that it is only...
Feb 23, 2019 | Radio Show
Youtuber Claims Online Pedophile Ring Operates Freely On Youtube YouTuber Matt Watson exposed what he called a “wormhole into a soft-core pedophilia ring” on the video streaming platform, in a video uploaded Sunday. Watson’s video claimed to reveal a...
Feb 23, 2019 | Radio Show
Did Your Smart-Tv Start Showing You Shows You Didn’t Subscribe To? “Thehackergiraffe” Says He’s Retired From Hacking Smart Tvs To Promote Pewdiepie TheHackerGiraffe, the hacker who breached innocent users’ unsecured printers, Google Chromecast streaming devices, and...
