Regardless of whether the WhatsApp messages are to blame, “the biggest takeaway from this,” writes Sheera Frenkel of the New York Times, “is that anyone, anywhere, can be hacked if the person carrying out the attack has enough time, money and patience.”
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You’ve probably heard of SSL (Secure Socket Layer) technology, which allows for the “S” part of the “https” address you’ve now seen everywhere. However, not…
Two separate news items about hacking intrusions have caused me to lose sleep this week. The attacks weren’t against public libraries, but both are against…
Years ago, I developed a presentation called “Four Things You Need to Do to Your Computer Today” — a baseline security presentation that talked about…
With the data breach at Equifax, potentially 145.5 million Social Security Numbers were compromised. This on top of major reported breaches at Anthem, Department for…
It’s not your imagination: DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks are ramping up. Researchers at the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis, based at the San Diego…
OPLIN 4Cast #551: Secret messages
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Here’s one for the folks who like spy stories. On June 5, The Intercept published a top secret National Security Agency report on election-related Russian…
OPLIN 4cast #548: Telephone attacks
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Here’s something to add to your anxiety closet. We are starting to hear reports of libraries whose VoIP telephone systems have been hacked. Many of…