• Here’s Everything You Need to Know About the Equifax Breach

    Here’s Everything You Need to Know About the Equifax Breach

    The data breach that Equifax reported on Thursday was maybe the most severe breach in several years.   And the reason is?  Well, three was a ton of extremely sensitive data that is now in the hands of who knows what kind of people.  Specifically, the breach exposed full names, Social Security numbers, birth dates,…

  • A Design Flaw is Making it Extremely Easy to Hack Siri and Alexa

    A Design Flaw is Making it Extremely Easy to Hack Siri and Alexa

    Chinese researchers have discovered a terrifying vulnerability in voice assistants from Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung and Huawei.  It affects every iPhone and Macbook running Siri, any Galaxy phone, any PC running Windows 10 and even Amazon’s Alexa assistant.   Using a technique called the “DolphinAttack”, a team from Zhejiang University translated typical vocal commands…

  • States Still Don’t Know if Russians Hacked Their Voting Systems

    States Still Don’t Know if Russians Hacked Their Voting Systems

    What happened to all those reports that the Russians had hacked the electoral system?  Did that all just go away?  Not exactly.  You would think that the individual states where this is reported to have happened would at least know what’s going on.  But they have been cut out of the loop.  The National Association…