Fortnite, a multiplayer, shooter-survival game, developed in 2017 by Epic Games based in Cary, North Carolina was recently added as a member of the growing list of applications hacked by internet hackers. The Fortnite…
When I was kid, my parents stressed to me that there were certain topics you just didn’t talk about in public: religion and politics. You never knew whom you would offend if you brought up…
An article in The Washington Post today presented some scary but unsurprising news about recent advances in hacking into automobiles to take control of them remotely. From several miles away, an attacker could break into the…
A hacker group known as Lizard Squad made a lot of kids unhappy this Christmas by shutting down two popular video game networks, Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s Playstation Network. Starting on Christmas eve, core…
A laptop containing data on 2,800 patients at Northwestern Memorial Health Care was stolen this week. According to a report, the laptop was password-protected but not encrypted. Put simply, that means that 2,800 student records are…
The Sony hacking scandal in the wake of the comedy The Interview is alarming, not because it has caused the demise of a single movie, but because it suggests that, unless we get a dose of…
I will readily admit that I haven’t read Rolling Stone since I was an undergraduate in college. Then, a former student and cyber security enthusiast recommended that I read this article, I haven’t read such a…
An underground cyber criminal ring has stolen the personal records of over 4 million Americans and has been selling them to other cyber criminals. The group, called SSNDOB for “social security number / date of…
The Syria saga is playing out in cyber space, too. A group that calls itself the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) claims to have compromised the websites of Twitter, the New York Times, the Huffington Post, and several…
There are interesting parallels between the electric power grid and medical facilities when it comes to cyber threats. Until recently, few cared about whether the electrical grid was exposed to computer attack. The devices which…