A system control center operator sits at his computer workstation at an AEP Transmission Operations Center in New Albany, Ohio / AP BY: Bill Gertz Follow @BillGertzOctober 24, 2016 5:15 pm A major cyber attack that disrupted Internet service for major users like Twitter and Amazon in parts of the United States on Friday was […]
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USA TODAY’s Elizabeth Weise tells how to protect home devices from hackers and says to be wary of refrigerators, stoves and other connected products that don’t have password protection. Worried your Internet connection is too slow? You can check your router to see if any rogue devices are using your connection.(Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto) SAN FRANCISCO
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The Duke Reporters’ Lab, a journalism-centric arm of Duke University, has unveiled a new political fact-checking app for Alexa Voice-enabled devices—including the Echo, Echo Dot and Amazon Tap—giving device owners the ability to fact-check politicians in real time. A spin-off of the Lab’s Share the Facts fact-checking project, the app is available in the Skills
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The unprecedented distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that disrupted access to scores of websites and services on Friday has led to some action: a product recall. Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology, a Chinese company whose DVRs and webcams were hijacked and used to carry out the DDoS attack, is recalling all of its webcam models, according to Reuters.
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