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Celebrities “exposed” in high-profile cloud breach
Though no comment has been forthcoming from Apple yet, the mainstream press has been awash in reports that dozens of Hollywood celebrities had their iCloud accounts hacked over the Labor Day holiday weekend and, as you might have guessed, explicit images and videos have surfaced on the internet. News of the breach first surfaced on
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Number of android ransomware infections growing rapidly
The New York Times is reporting that the number of Android smartphones infected with a ransomware virus has grown to nearly one million devices in the past 30 days. Though the concept of ransomware is not new to the technology world, only minor outbreaks of this particularly nasty malware have been seen on mobile devices,
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Smartphone kill switch is now California law
Despite industry opposition and a failed first attempt, California’s governor signed into law a bill that requires smartphone manufacturers to install and enable kill switch functionality on all smartphones sold after July 1, 2015. Though California isn’t the first state to enact a killswitch law – Minnesota enacted a similar law back in May –
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Supermarket Chains Hacked
Supermarket chains Supervalu, Albertons and Jewel-Osco have joined the illustrious list of large retailers hacked (presumably) for their vast datastores of shopper identities and credit card information. Investigation is still ongoing in both cases as to whether hackers actually managed to retrieve shopper data during the breaches, and whether the data is being used illegally
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Data breach of hospital network exposes 4.5M patients
Four and a half million patients treated within the hospital network Community Health Systems now have something else to worry about aside from having to see a physician: identity theft. The 28-state network revealed today that its servers had been breached by Chinese hackers who gained access to CHS patients’ names, birthdates, social security numbers,
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Internet of Things, meet Twitter of Things
Confirming something that many of us already suspected, Twitter has revealed in its most recent SEC filing that almost 9% of all Twitter accounts aren’t used by actual humans. Given the social media’s 271 million accounts, that’s nearly 23 million Tweeters posting content at the behest of some form of automation or algorithm.
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