Privacy, Hacking and Virus Alerts

Winston connects to your cable modem and wireless router and keeps you from being hacked, tracked, and makes sure all your home’s connected devices are safe from online bad guys.

City manager Andrea Surratt said the city isn’t aware of how many people have actually experienced fraud after paying utilities during that window, but the number of people compromised in Bozeman is upwards of 3,000.

Dark Patterns are tricks used in websites and apps that make you buy or sign up for things that you didn’t mean to. The purpose of this site is to spread awareness and to shame companies that use them.

While Twitter has fixed the bug, and doesn’t think any of the exposed passwords were accessed in any way, you should still change your Twitter password right now to make sure your account is secure.

"They then found the high-roller database and then pulled that back across the network, out the thermostat, and up to the cloud." The incident raises awareness about the security of IoT objects.

The group–which often appears to be Russian-speaking, but hasn’t been tied to a home country–generally works on a normal business schedule, with nights and weekends off.

Take a close look at apps that let developers glom onto your personal information and then potentially share, or re-sell, that information to others.

U.S. national security officials said the FBI, the Homeland The officials said the Russians deliberately chose U.S. energy industry targets, obtaining access to computer systems and then conducting "network reconnaissance" of industrial control systems that run American factories and the electricity grid.

The Russian military launched the most destructive and costly cyberattack in history,"

The patches "may introduce higher than expected reboots and other unpredictable system behavior," wrote Navin Shenoy, general manager for Intel’s data center group in a blog posting Monday.