Oct 20, 2018 | Business, Radio Show, Security, Technology
Is Your DNA In A Database? Doesn’t Matter. New Study Finds That DNA Databases Can Send The Police Or Hackers To Your Door – Even If You Didn’t Submit Your DNA More than 60 percent of Americans who have some European ancestry can be identified using DNA databases —...
Jul 21, 2018 | Radio Show, Technology
When a DNA Test Shatters Your Identity It was AncestryDNA’s customer-service rep who had to break the news to Catherine St Clair. For her part, St Clair thought she was inquiring about a technical glitch. Her brother—the brother who along with three other siblings had...
Jun 16, 2018 | Health, Radio Show, Security
Why a DNA data breach is much worse than a credit card leak This week, DNA testing service MyHeritage revealed that hackers had breached 92 million of its accounts. Though the hackers only accessed encrypted emails and passwords — so they never reached the actual...
Aug 26, 2017 | Radio Show, Security, Technology
Future of Cyber Attacks: DNA-Based Malware! Could your DNA be used as a vector for attack on devices and networks? The short answer is yes, kind of. As the line blurs everyday between science fiction and reality the incidents of security breaches are becoming more...