• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-16-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Critical flaw lets hackers take control of Samsung SmartCam cameras

The popular Samsung SmartCam security cameras contain a critical remote code execution vulnerability that could allow hackers to gain root access and take full control of them. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers from the hacking collec... Read More

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-16-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Critical flaw lets hackers take control of Samsung SmartCam cameras

The popular Samsung SmartCam security cameras contain a critical remote code execution vulnerability that could allow hackers to gain root access and take full control of them. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers from the hacking collec... Read More

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-13-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on WhatsApp vulnerability could expose messages to prying eyes, report claims

Update, 1/20/17: A post on the Technosociology blog signed by dozens of security experts calls for a Guardian retraction and apology. This article has been updated to reflect this.When Facebook’s WhatsApp turned on end-end-end encryption in its messaging service last year, it […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-13-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on After MongoDB, ransomware groups hit exposed Elasticsearch clusters

After deleting data from thousands of publicly accessible MongoDB databases, ransomware groups have started doing the same with Elasticsearch clusters that are accessible from the internet and are not properly secured.Elasticsearch is a Java-based s... Read More