Category: Security

FDA warns hospitals about security flaws in some GE medical equipment

Post author By Randall
Post date January 23, 2020
Categories In Cybersecurity, fda, ge, gear, medical equipment, medicine, Security, Tech

[ad_1] Those vulnerabilities, the FDA said, could allow bad actors to remotely take control of the devices in order to generate false alarms or silence real ones. An attacker could, for instance, stop the system from notifying providers about a patient’s cardiac status, putting their life in danger. Thankfully, the FDA has yet to receive […]

Bipartisan bill would scale back key section of the Patriot Act

Post author By Randall
Post date January 23, 2020
Categories In bill, fisa, gear, gps, nsa, patriot act, Politics, Privacy, ron wyden, section 215, Security, spying, Tech

[ad_1] While there are a variety of facets to the bill, the most significant aspect of it is that it would prohibit the warrantless collection of cell-site and GPS geolocation data, as well as internet browsing and search history by US intelligence agencies. Additionally, the bill would eliminate the relevance clause that had allowed the […]

The Morning After: Motorola’s foldable Razr arrives February 6th

Post author By Randall
Post date January 23, 2020
Categories In av, Entertainment, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, Mobile, Security, services, Tech, themorningafter

[ad_1] Fall 2020 is getting closer.Microsoft gets the ball rolling on Surface Duo apps Microsoft has released a preview toolkit to help developers make apps for its Android-powered Surface Duo, including Java frameworks and emulation that can handle the two-screen device. This is rough code, to put it mildly, but it should help studios get […]

Tinder is working on a panic button for dangerous situations

Post author By Randall
Post date January 23, 2020
Categories In alarm, business, data, dating, Entertainment, location, match, Mobile, noonlight, real-time, Safety, Security, sex, Tech, tinder, tracking

[ad_1] If a date turns ugly, users will be able to trigger an alarm via the Noonight tool within the Tinder app. They’ll then be instructed to enter a code. If they don’t, they’ll receive a text from one of Noonlight’s dispatchers. If they don’t respond to that message, Noonlight will call them, and if […]

DOJ letter reveals the FBI recently cracked an iPhone 11

Post author By Randall
Post date January 22, 2020
Categories In Apple, backdoor, encryption, fbi, gear, iphone 11, Security, Tech

[ad_1] While the Department of Justice, US attorney general and even the president continue to pressure Apple for additional technical support in unlocking iPhones tied to the naval base shooting in December, a letter reveals that the FBI recently cracked a password-protected iPhone 11. That phone belonged to Lev Parnas, an associate of the president’s […]

Microsoft accidently exposed 250 million customer service records

Post author By Randall
Post date January 22, 2020
Categories In Cybersecurity, data, data breach, data exposure, database, gear, Internet, Microsoft, Security, Tech

[ad_1] Security researcher Bob Diachenko and Comparitech discovered the vulnerability on December 29th. Microsoft quickly fixed the issue two days later. It says the exposure was caused by a “misconfiguration” of one of its internal customer support databases. The company claims it found no evidence of “malicious use.” The server included conversation logs dating as […]

Germany has to pay Microsoft for failing to upgrade from Windows 7

Post author By Randall
Post date January 22, 2020
Categories In business, end of life, end-of-life, extended security updates, gear, germany, Microsoft, personal computing, personalcomputing, Security, Tech, windows 10, windows 7

[ad_1] Microsoft offers extended security updates to enterprise and business clients, but at a hefty price — ZDNet reported that the company will charge $50 per machine during the first year of end-of-life support and that the price will increase after each additional year. When an organization has tens of thousands of computers, those fees […]

UN calls for investigation into alleged Saudi hacking of Jeff Bezos

Post author By Randall
Post date January 22, 2020
Categories In Amazon, gear, Hack, Internet, jeff bezos, mohammad bin salman, mohammed bin salman, Saudi Arabia, Security, Tech, un, united nations, whatsapp

[ad_1] The team added that this was evidence of the problems with the unregulated sale and use of spyware for surveillance purposes. These tools should be governed by “the most rigorous control” to prevent abuse, and that there should be a “moratorium” on selling and transferring the technology. Saudi Arabia has called the WhatsApp hack […]

Guardian: Saudi prince’s account used to hack Jeff Bezos via WhatsApp

Post author By Randall
Post date January 21, 2020
Categories In Amazon, breach, business, data breach, gear, Hack, jeff bezos, malware, mbs, Mobile, mohammad bin salman, Saudi Arabia, Security, Tech

[ad_1] The breach was apparently carried out in early May 2018, when Bezos received an unsolicited message from the crown prince — or an entity in control of his WhatsApp account. That message allegedly contained a video file that forensic analysis later concluded was highly likely to contain malware that allowed “large amounts of data” […]