Missing Things in the IoT? Privacy and Security
It’s easy to get caught up in the promise of the Internet of Things (IoT) to make life easier, safer and more enjoyable. From smarter transportation to a revolution in healthcare, the benefits are numerous and consequential. Yet the technology’s potential is packed with unanswered questions and unintended consequences its developers...
Why the Advent of the Ransomworm is a Really Big Deal
If you are like most people and are not immersed in cybersecurity issues on a daily basis, there is a good chance that you have only recently been introduced to ransomware through news reports and associated cyber alerts. That is probably the best way to be introduced to ransomware, which has been an emerging threat for several...
Here’s the hacker behind the largest-ever social media data breaches
"Hacker." We are hearing this more and more every day. In just the past couple of years, there have been several huge data breaches of the social media sites that millions of people across the globe use every day. In some cases, the data stolen is encrypted and inaccessible, but in others, the more sensitive information for millions of...
How Intelligence and Surveillance Tech Drove America to Enter World War I
The past few months have brought an avalanche of stories on surveillance and intelligence gathering by leaders and governments both foreign and domestic. Americans find themselves asking, What is our government up to? What might be the consequences of governments’ abilities to listen into our private conversations? If history is any...
The Two Faces of Anonymous
Who is Anonymous? I tend to become annoyed when I see articles about this – every tech reporter out there seems to think they’re contributing to “the revolution” by doing a few Google searches and then regurgitating the results in an edgy manner. Even the ones who make an effort to “get inside” the group still miss the point...
This Wearable Security Device is a Game-Changer
In a place which once seemed like new terrain ruled by the likes of Occulus and Fitbit, the land of wearable tech now appears all too easy to get lost in. If you were at CES last month, you know exactly what we mean. There wasn’t a shortage of new wearable technology as we strolled down the long aisles of Sands Hall. However, amongst...
Anon, Identify Yourself: Chinese Government Bans Internet Anonymity
The National People's Congress Standing Committee of China, has passed a law banning Internet users from publishing a wide variety of information, including anything that damages "national honour," "disturbs economic or social order," or is aimed at "overthrowing the socialist system." This just one of the many cybersecurity laws the...![Yahoo hacks: now more than one billion accounts compromised [Updated]](https://innotechtoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/yahoo-hacked-370x223.jpg)
Yahoo hacks: now more than one billion accounts compromised [Updated]
Updated 12/15/2016, 10:41 a.m. Yahoo recently disclosed yet another breach to its database of users. Already reeling from the August 2013 breach that exposed around 500 million accounts, Yahoo is now struggling with an even larger one that they are saying is "separate and distinct" from the earlier hack. Verizon and Yahoo have been...
Dropbox hack compromises 68 million accounts
In June, we wrote about the largest social media data breaches to date. And now, just a few short months later, there's a new site that we could add to the list. Dropbox, the popular cloud storage site, has been hacked. Why or by whom, no one knows. But what we do know is that approximately 68 million usernames and passwords -- which...
