Amazon Echo Data Called Upon In Criminal Case
Privacy has been on the endangered species list for a while now, but the growing number of smart devices in people’s homes is putting an increasing amount of pressure on what little ...
Ransomware May Be Coming To Your Smart TV
Darren Cauthon, a software developer, got a Christmas present this year he didn’t ask for and didn’t want. On Christmas day, his family downloaded and installed an app on their Android-based LG ...
Patient Information On Social Media Shows Need For Better Security
A very strange and disturbing case of the theft of protected health information has come from the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The department recently reported on an ...
Microsoft Could Add Mode To Windows 10 To Boost Gaming Performance
Microsoft has been hard at work experimenting with various ways to optimize performance. One of the most recent experiments to come to light is the advent of “Windows Gaming Mode.” Slated to ...
Downloading Cracked Antivirus Software Could Get You Infected
File this one away under “it should go without saying, but…” One of the most amazing and disheartening aspects of internet use is that after all this time, a shocking number of ...
Cybersecurity Guidelines Being Set By FDA For Connected Medical Devices
The government is taking a more active hand in establishing security protocols for at least one part of the Internet of Things. Specifically, new guidelines are being drafted by the FDA to ...
Google Creates New Operating System For Internet of Things
Google is about to change the game where the Internet of Things (IoT) is concerned. Recently, the company announced the release of Android Things, an operating system specifically designed for internet objects. ...
Update Flash Or Risk Vulnerability To Hackers
Yet more critical security flaws have been found in Adobe’s poor, beleaguered Flash Player. The company continues to fight gamely to keep pace, patching issues as quickly as they are found, but ...
One Billion Yahoo Accounts Were Breached
This is a world record, although the honor of holding it is a dubious one. Yahoo recently announced that it was the victim of the largest data breach of all time, in ...
New Version Of Android Trojan Can Take Photos And More
If you haven’t heard of a Trojan called Tordow, you probably will soon. Security researchers have been aware of it since February of this year, but recently, researchers from Comodo Security have ...
