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The FBI Router Warning – What to Do
The FBI issued a warning last week to anyone using an aftermarket router or network attached storage device (NAS), asking them to reboot it. If you haven’t already rebooted your router, now would be a good time to do it -- but make sure you come back and finish this...
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AS HEARD ON: WTAG – FBI Router Warning and GDPR: AS HEARD ON – WTAG NewsRadio 580[05-29-18]
AS HEARD ON: WTAG - FBI Router Warning and GDPR: AS HEARD ON - WTAG NewsRadio 580 [05-29-18] On This Episode... FBI has been warning everyone to reboot your routers. This morning Craig speaks with Jim about this router vulnerability and why the FBI is serious about...
Why Google Should Have Considered Duplex’s Ethical Issues Earlier
Why Google Should Have Considered Duplex's Ethical Issues Earlier When Google (GOOGL, -0.12%) unveiled its Duplex “AI” earlier this week, it sparked massive ethical concerns. Belatedly, the company seems to have recognized the problem. The point of the new virtual...
Stop Using Common Email Encryption Tools Immediately, Researchers Warn
Stop Using Common Email Encryption Tools Immediately, Researchers Warn Throughout the many arguments over encrypted communications, there has been at least one constant: the venerable tools for strong email encryption are trustworthy. That may no longer be true. On...
Millions of Computers Are at Risk of Hacks That Crack Into Their Core
Millions of Computers Are at Risk of Hacks That Crack Into Their Core Yuriy Bulygin knows all about computer vulnerabilities. He spent most of his career at Intel Corp. studying security flaws in chips, including several years as the company’s chief threat researcher,...
The Best Internet Security: Layers of Protection, and Good Habits
The Best Internet Security: Layers of Protection, and Good Habits Russia is attacking the U.S. energy grid, nuclear facilities, water processing plants, aviation systems, and other critical infrastructure that millions of Americans rely on, according to a new joint...
Yahoo and AOL Just Gave Themselves the Right to Read Emails, Access Bank Records
Yahoo and AOL Just Gave Themselves the Right to Read Emails, Access Bank Records It’s not only Facebook and Google that want all your data. In one of the most far-reaching attacks on personal privacy, Oath, the new name of Verizon’s online content subsidiary, is...
Facebook is tracking you on over 8.4 million websites
Facebook is tracking you on over 8.4 million websites Facebook is tracking you. Even if you don’t have a Facebook account, or you religiously use incognito mode, Mark Zuckerberg’s monster almost certainly has your data meticulously catalogued and stored away...
What You Need to Know About GDPR Breach Disclosure, Response
What You Need to Know About GDPR Breach Disclosure, Response Incident response is a critical pillar of an effective endpoint security program, one that will gain importance as GDPR enforcement comes into play on May 25. Organizations must be ready to react if and when...
FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices
FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices The FBI is advising users of consumer-grade routers and network-attached storage devices to reboot them as soon as possible to counter Russian-engineered malware that has infected hundreds of...
Fleet Week New York 2018
Fleet Week New York 2018 NEW YORK (May 23, 2018) Musician 3rd Class Amanda Thompson of Bow, New Hampshire, assigned to the U.S. Fleet Forces Band performs at a concert at South Street Seaport in New York City during Fleet Week New York 2018. Now in its 30th year,...
Major Home/Small Business Router Vulnerability
Major Home/Small Business Router Vulnerability [Merrimack, NH] Hackers possibly working for an advanced nation have infected more than 500,000 home and small-office routers around the world with malware that can be used to collect communications, launch attacks on...
Stop Using WhatsApp If You Care About Your Privacy
Stop Using WhatsApp If You Care About Your Privacy Russia is attacking the U.S. energy grid, nuclear facilities, water processing plants, aviation systems, and other critical infrastructure that millions of Americans rely on, according to a new joint analysis by the...
How to Get Better Recommendations From Apple Music, Spotify, and More
How to Get Better Recommendations From Apple Music, Spotify, and More Thanks to the rise of music streaming services, it’s never been easier to find new music—so why do I keep listening to the same three albums on repeat? Part of the problem is that Apple Music’s...
Equifax Operates Another Credit Bureau, and You Can’t Freeze Your Report Online
Equifax Operates Another Credit Bureau, and You Can't Freeze Your Report Online Remember all that trouble you went through to freeze your credit report after the massive and unforgivable Equifax hack? Turns out it was all for nothing, as security writer Brian Krebs...
Here’s What Apple Knows About You (Spoiler: Not Much)
Here's What Apple Knows About You (Spoiler: Not Much) Apple likes to say that it cares more about your privacy than other tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Amazon, but does that claim actually hold up? It turns out the answer is a pretty resounding yes. How to...
Facebook reportedly plans to launch its own cryptocurrency
Facebook reportedly plans to launch its own cryptocurrency Facebook is reportedly planning to launch its own cryptocurrency, according to a report from Cheddar’s Alex Heath. Currently, there isn’t too much detail, but the company is said to be specifically focused on...
Nearly a dozen Google employees have reportedly quit in protest
Nearly a dozen Google employees have reportedly quit in protest Remember when 3,100 Google employees signed a protest letter over the use of Google's machine learning algorithms to help drones identify and track objects for the US Department of Defense? If not, you'd...
Pentagon Wants Cloud Secure Enough to Hold Nuke Secrets
Pentagon Wants Cloud Secure Enough to Hold Nuke Secrets The Defense Department’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud will be designed to host the government’s most sensitive classified data, including critical nuclear weapon design information and other...
Lie-detecting computers equipped with artificial intelligence look like the future of border security
Lie-detecting computers equipped with artificial intelligence look like the future of border security International travelers could find themselves in the near future talking to a lie-detecting kiosk when they're going through customs at an airport or border crossing....
eMail encryption tools highly vulnerable
eMail encryption tools highly vulnerable Major news in the security world as the email encryption standard used worldwide is shown to have a gaping hole. s/MIME, the protocol that was bolted onto the email protocol to provide security, actually allows attackers to see...
ZTE Shutting Down – Huawei Phones Banned
The FBI makes it official: Russia is attacking U.S. energy, water, and critical systems On this Saturday’ show, Craig talks about the latest standards in password security as well as how mobile companies such as ZTE and Huawei are hitting the news as it gets banned in...
Top intelligence official says Chinese ZTE cellphones pose security risk to U.S.
Top intelligence official says Chinese ZTE cellphones pose security risk to U.S. The nation's top counterintelligence official told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that penetration of the U.S. market by the Chinese telecom firm ZTE could pose a national...
US drops the hammer on China’s ZTE amid trade tensions
US drops the hammer on China's ZTE amid trade tensions The US just handed down more penalties against a Chinese telecommunications giant. And no, this isn't about Huawei. The Commerce Department has imposed a "denial of export privileges" against ZTE, which translates...
The Pentagon bans Huawei and ZTE phones from retail stores on military bases
The Pentagon bans Huawei and ZTE phones from retail stores on military bases The Pentagon is ordering retail outlets on US military bases to stop selling Huawei and ZTE phones. The Department of Defense says using the devices could be a security risk. “Huawei and ZTE...
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Google Duplex will call salons, restaurants, and pretend to be human for you [Updated]
Google Duplex will call salons, restaurants, and pretend to be human for you [Updated] Tuesday's I/O keynote included a segment on Google Assistant with a slew of newly announced features, but none was as startling as its rollout of Google Duplex: a voice-powered...
Standards Milestone Could Mark Beginning of End for Passwords
Standards Milestone Could Mark Beginning of End for Passwords A Web standards milestone announced Tuesday could point to the end of the road for pesky passwords. The new standard, WebAuthn, has won near-final approval from the World Wide Web Consortium, which...
You Can’t Opt Out Of Sharing Your Data, Even If You Didn’t Opt In
You Can’t Opt Out Of Sharing Your Data, Even If You Didn’t Opt In The Golden State Killer, who terrorized Californians from Sacramento to Orange County over the course of a decade, committed his last known murder in 1986, the same year that DNA profiling was used in a...
Pentagon Orders Military To Halt Sale Of Chinese Phones Citing Security Threats
Pentagon Orders Military To Halt Sale Of Chinese Phones Citing Security Threats The U.S. Department of Defense has ordered retail stores on military bases to stop the sale of products made by Chinese telecom companies Huawei and ZTE for security reasons, including...
A Criminal Gang Used a Drone Swarm To Obstruct an FBI Hostage Raid
A Criminal Gang Used a Drone Swarm To Obstruct an FBI Hostage Raid Last winter, on the outskirts of a large U.S.city, an FBI hostage rescue team set up an elevated observation post to assess an unfolding situation. Soon they heard the buzz of small drones — and then...