March 04, 2020

NCSC: Secure your webcams now

We don't want to see what you do behind closed doors, but lots of hackers would be happy to pull up a chair to view that video stream.

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October 01, 2019

Hacking 2020 voting systems is a ‘piece of cake’

That's how Senator Wyden described the results of DefCon's Voting Village, where all of 100 voting systems were easily picked apart by hackers.

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May 30, 2019

What a teen grade hacker’s confession can teach us

"We had access to the grade book. Now we could change the grades."

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March 22, 2018

The password to your IoT device is just a Google search away

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University were often able to find default passwords in under 30 minutes with a simple Google search.

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July 19, 2016

Warning issued over baby monitor, webcam, IoT security… again!

Creeps are still live-streaming your badly secured IoT devices, says UK's data watchdog, the ICO.

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June 02, 2016

Hacked road sign dubs Donald Trump a “shape-shifting lizard”

Three signs were tampered with over the weekend - the others said “Bernie for President” and “Work Is Canceled – Go Back Home”.

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May 24, 2016

Man hacks highway sign to read “Drive Crazy Yall”

It should have been a "construction ahead" warning, and the electronic sign should have been secured with a less guessable password!

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April 08, 2015

Baby cam plays creepy music, moves of its own accord

Yes, the wireless cam was possessed - by the spirit of whoever hijacked the Foscam IP device to spy on a Minnesota couple's baby.

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