Collaborate Disseminate
Google’s fledgling Stadia service leverages the Chrome ecosystem to deliver streamed PC games on mobile devices, web browsers, and TVs. While not strictly required, the company even offers a dedicated Stadia controller that connects directly to the streaming servers over its own WiFi connection to reduce overall system latency. Of …read more
Continue reading Careful Drilling Keeps Stadia From Listening In
A researcher developed a killswitch exploiting a buffer overflow in Emotet – preventing the malware from infecting systems for six months. Continue reading ‘EmoCrash’ Exploit Stoppered Emotet For 6 Months
Your home or business network is much more secure when you use a VPN. VPN is an acronym and it stands for virtual private network. It is practically an encrypted connection over the internet from a device such as a computer or a smartphone to a network… Continue reading How to Add More Security to Your VPN Connection
Smart speakers have always posed a risk to privacy and security — that’s just the price we pay for getting instant answers to life’s urgent and not-so-urgent questions the moment they arise. But it seems that many owners of the 76 million or so smart speakers on the active install …read more
Those who have children of their own might argue that the youth of today are getting far too much internet time. [Nick] decided to put an emergency stop to it and made this ingenious internet kill switch to threaten teenagers with. Rather unassuming on the outside, the big red button …read more
Continue reading Curbing Internet Addiction In A Threatening Manner
When WannaCry struck, companies across the globe feared they would be next until an unsuspecting hero emerged, sink-holing the worm with a kill switch. Since then, security defenders across all sectors have been trying to devise their own kill switch,… Continue reading Cyber Kill Switch: The Good, the Bad and the Potentially Ugly
A computer virus outbreak on the evening of August 3 compromised Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry. The outbreak affected a number of computer systems and fab tools in Ta… Continue reading WannaCry Outbreak Could Cost TSMC $170 Million
The Feds say Marcus Hutchins is behind both the UPAS Kit backdoor and the Kronos banking trojan. Continue reading WannaCry Kill Switch Hero Faces New Charges, But Code Evals Say Little
How would you feel about your insurer or your finance company having access to data about your driving and where you go? Continue reading Hit the road – with your insurer and lender keeping an eye on your driving
A computer hacker who allegedly helped the terrorist organization ISIS by handing over data for 1,351 US government and military personnel has been sentenced to 20 years in a U.S. prison.
Ardit Ferizi, aka Th3Dir3ctorY, from Kosovo was sentenced in fe… Continue reading Hacker Who Helped ISIS to Build ‘Hit List’ Of US Military Personnel Jailed for 20 Years