Largest Voting Machine Vendor in US Admits Its Systems Had Remote-Access Software Installed
By Matt Agorist A bombshell revelation on the security of voting in the United States has just surfaced in the form of a letter from…
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There’s A New Battlefield; It’s In Digital Technology
By Catherine J. Frompovich Here is a new tech term to try to wrap your mind around: “digital grenades.” According to Tim Johnson, author of…
Connected Cars Can Lie, Posing a New Threat to Smart Cities
By Qi Alfred Chen, University of Michigan and Z. Morley Mao, University of Michigan The day when cars can talk to each other – and…
An Interview With Anonymous On OpRussia Against The Death Of Anonymity And Censoring Of Encryption
By Aaron Kesel On May 10th, 2018, the hacktivist group Anonymous attacked the official website of Russia’s Federal Agency for International Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) by hacking and defacing…
Your Genome May Have Already Been Hacked
By Norman A. Paradis, Dartmouth College On April 25, California law enforcement announced the possible capture of a long-sought serial killer. Shortly after, it was…
Hacker Lauri Love Wins In UK High Court, Will Not Be Extradited To The U.S.
By Derrick Broze The UK High Court has ruled that hacker Lauri Love will not be extradited to the United States for his suspected role…
WikiLeaks Vault 8 Part 1: CIA Wrote Code To Impersonate Russian Anti-Virus Company Kaspersky
By Aaron Kesel WikiLeaks has released part 1 of its new Vault 8 series following its popular and widely distributed Vault 7 series which exposed…
Can You be Hacked by the World Around You?
By Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University You’ve probably been told it’s dangerous to open unexpected attachment files in your email – just like you…
Smart Meters Create A “Honeypot” Of Personal Information To Exploit
By Catherine J. Frompovich Over a year ago, reporter Ruth Lyle of the UK’s Daily Mail, published a rather introspective article about how AMI Smart…
Smart Meter Data: Privacy and Cybersecurity – Congressional Research Report 2012
By Catherine J. Frompovich In February of 2012, three attorneys with the Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a lengthy report “Smart Meter Data: Privacy and…
PA Attorney General Concerned About Equifax Cyberattack; Will U.S. Attorneys General Be Upset About Utility Smart Meters Hacking?
By Catherine J. Frompovich According to news reports [1], Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is concerned about and investigating the credit bureau Equifax’s data breach…
U.S. Government Announces 21 States Had Hackers Target Their System – Leaves Out DHS Hackers
By Aaron Kesel The federal government just announced on Friday that election officials in 21 states had Russian hackers target their systems before last year’s presidential election according…
Credit Agency Equifax Threatened To Pay Up In Bitcoin Or Else
By Aaron Kesel Credit reporting agency Equifax was hacked, potentially endangering 143 million Americans’ social security numbers, birth dates, and other private information. Unless, according to…
Who Will Pay The Ransom When Smart Meters Are Hacked Into?
By Catherine J. Frompovich Do you recall that a hospital actually paid hackers $17,000 ransom for the release of the hospital’s data? That was the…