Feb 24, 2019 | 2019, Breaches, January
Who: Japanese IoT devices What was affected: 200 million IoT devices When it happened: January 2019 How it happened: The survey will be carried out by employees of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) under the supervision of the...
Feb 3, 2018 | Internet, Radio Show, Security, Technology
Hackers Have Already Targeted the Winter Olympics—and May Not Be Done THE OLYMPICS HAVE always been a geopolitical microcosm: beyond the athletic match-ups, they provide a vehicle for diplomacy and propaganda, and even, occasionally, a proxy for war. It stands to...
May 27, 2017 | Business, Internet, Radio Show, Security
How hackers can ruin your summer vacation It was the Summer Olympics in 1996 in Atlanta. Ken Spinner, then a systems consultant — and tourist in the city — lost his credit card information. But this was more than two decades ago, so it happened the old-fashioned way:...