On the global battlefield of cyberwarfare, there’s a vast army of faceless foot soldiers — and they’ve just been revealed as double agents. The directed denial of service (DDoS) attack that brought the Internet to its knees one day last month used everyday household appliances like cameras, universal remotes, DVRs and even washing machines. That’s […]
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Update Date: Nov 05, 2016 07:45 AM EDT WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 16: (L-R) Kevin Charest, chief information security officer for the Health and Human Services Department; Teresa Fryer, chief information security officer and director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Enterprise Information Security Group, and Frank Baitman, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information
Last week, a 19-year-old British teenager pleaded guilty to running Titanium Stresser, a service that is alleged to have facilitated 1.7 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattacks. Adam Mudd’s website, which he designed as a 15-year-old, earned him somewhere in excess of $385,000. It was marketed under disclaimer as a legitimate IP stresser, a tool for testing
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Shares of Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ:SWIR) popped nearly 15% on Friday after the Internet of Things pure play released better-than-expected third-quarter 2016 results. And according to Sierra Wireless management, the company should only get stronger going forward. Before we get there, however, let’s dig deeper to see what Sierra Wireless achieved in its latest quarter. IMAGE
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A key hurdle to widespread gigabit-speed Internet is the high cost of getting fiber optic lines over the last mile — from the fiber backbone in nearby streets to each house. But increasingly, cellular operators, broadband providers including Google Fiber and several startups are exploring a new, less expensive way to bridge the last mile
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Brief internet outages this week in Liberia have captured the attention of cybersecurity researchers around the world, who fear the small West African nation has become a testing zone for global hackers. Punishing digital attacks sent all of Liberia offline for short, intermittent periods, often barely a second. One cybersecurity researcher said the attacks were
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On this week’s Gadget Lab Podcast, we discuss voice assistants. We’re spending a lot of time talking to our devices. They’re talking back, too—products like Google Home and Amazon Echo can answer questions, give us helpful information, and tell stupid jokes. But what’s the end result of all this gabbing? Smarter AI assistants, sure. But
Millions of people living in the eastern U.S. woke up on a Friday morning in October to find large parts of the internet not working. No Twitter. No Netflix. No Spotify. The issue, as we later learned, was an ominous new kind of cyber attack, where “smart” household devices were marshalled into a zombie army
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Tweet The cyberattack that took down Netflix, Twitter, PayPal and dozens of other major websites two weeks ago was a vanguard, not a fluke. Attacks carried out by “botnets,” an army of unwitting devices that have been hacked and utilized as pawns to take down a high-value target, are one of the most common forms
PHOENIX — IT is changing faster than many people can comprehend, and everything from refrigerators to medical devices are being connected — the so-called Internet of Things — without full thought given to potentially tragic consequences. It is in this environment that CIOs find themselves today, and they must learn to lead organizations through it,
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