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Wikileaks reveals how CIA is targeting your iPhone, Android, and smart TV
Yahoo News The report also details the CIA's techniques that allow the agency to “penetrate, infest, and control both Android and iPhone software that has run presidential Twitter accounts” using zero day exploits that are not known to the security community at … |
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Smart teddy bear maker faces scrutiny over data breach response
InfoWorld Did a toymaker ignore warnings about a data breach? That's a key question swirling around Spiral Toys, a company behind a line of smart stuffed animals that security researchers worry can be easily hacked. On Tuesday, Spiral Toys said the breach, which … Troy Hunt: Data from connected CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids' voice messages Internet of Things Teddy Bear Leaked 2 Million Parent and Kids Message Recordings – Motherboard – Motherboard – Vice Smart teddy bears involved in a contentious data breach |
Today’s cautionary tale comes from Verizon’s sneak peek (pdf) of the 2017 Data Breach Digest scenario. It involves an unnamed university, seafood searches, and an IoT botnet; hackers were using the university’s own vending machines and other IoT devices to attack the university’s network.
Since the university’s help desk had previously blown off student complaints about slow or inaccessible network connectivity, it was a mess by the time a senior member of the IT security team was notified. The incident is given from that team member’s perspective; he or she suspected something fishy after detecting a sudden big interest in seafood-related domains.
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Ransomware Created for Smart Televisions Proved Hard Removing
SPAMfighter News (press release) It has been a 365-day period for ransomware designed to attack Android smart televisions to navigate from the proof-of-concept state onto their in-the-wild assaults. The ultimate date was when one victim found the malware during the 2015 Christmas … |