When Russia was recently banned from the Olympics for another four years in a unanimous decision from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the instant reaction from Moscow was anger and dismissal. Now the rest of the world is waiting to see how Russia will retaliate this time.
Next, the opening ceremony of the 2018 winter games in South Korea kicked off with all the traditional optimism, bright lights, and pageantry—plus a targeted cyberattack known as Olympic Destroyer that was designed to sabotage the networks and devices at the event.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Hackers publish Ring camera accounts, urge other hackers to record users in their homes | Fox News
Hackers have been publishing thousands of Ring camera account credentials on the dark web and forums frequented by cybercriminals, according to reports .
In some cases, hackers do it just for the laughs, “in the hopes that someone else would hack Ring users, hijack their accounts, play pranks, or record users in their homes,” according to a report at ZDNet.
These reports come after a Mississippi mom told Fox News that someone hacked her Ring surveillance cameras in her daughter’s bedroom and talked to her.
Watch out for these high-tech hackers in Lakewood - Lakewood/East Dallas
We all know not to send money to the Nigerian prince who needs your help to be freed from captivity. It’s one of the longest-running internet frauds that somehow refuses to die.
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In December, Lakewood Heights neighbor Brooke Russo posted on Nextdoor about a man who knocked on her door and claimed that his lost phone was at her house. He was carrying a laptop and requested access to her Wi-Fi to prove his phone was there.
Next time a stranger knocks on your door and asks to use your Wi-Fi, just tell them you have dial up and call the police.
Amazon Ring cameras could be easy prey for hackers | TechRadar
Amazon's Ring video cameras have inadequate cybersecurity, possibly leaving consumers vulnerable to cyberattack, according to a new court filing in the US.
A proposed class action filed last week claims that Amazon should compensate existing owners who have had their Ring systems compromised, as well as ensure overall security is improved for the product.
John Baker Orange, who filed the suit in Los Angeles, complained that his own Ring security system had been exploited by an attacker to spy his children.
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Ransomware Hackers Have Started Leaking City Of Pensacola Data
Pensacola Florida sign town America's First Settlement. (Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images ... [+] Group via Getty Images)
It didn't take long for the hackers to make good on that threat. A 2GB archive was posted on a public website just days ago. It represents just over 6% of the total data the ransomware exfiltrated from the Pensacola network.
If that wasn't already abundantly clear, it certainly is now. The group amassed more than 32GB of data from the City of Pensacola's infected systems.
'Maastricht University paid hackers to get back system access' - DutchNews.nl
The University of Maastricht paid 'several hundred thousand euros' to hackers who broke into the computer system shortly before the Christmas break, according to university news website Observant .
After making the payment the hackers gave university cyber experts the key to get back access to the system, sources told the magazine. The university itself has not commented on the claims.
Cyber crime experts have suggested that the hack was the work of a Russian group known as TA505, who focus on ransom-ware but others have dismissed this as speculation.
2019 Was A Banner Year For Hackers | PYMNTS.com
It's kind of like being on the "worst dressed list" except that we're talking about stolen data and, probably, lots of lawsuits.
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The readings are pretty grim. At a high level, the numbers are staggering. Millions of accounts hacked. Billions of records accessed. Thousands of breaches.
In data coming into the end of the year, Risk Based Security said hackers had accessed 7.9 billion records into the last few months of the year, and they were on track to access 8.5 billion records across more than 5,100 attacks — meaning through the first nine months of the year (the estimate as of this writing), the number of breaches grew by 33 percent.
Feds: No evidence hackers disrupted NC voting | Richmond County Daily Journal
RALEIGH — A federal investigation didn’t turn up any evidence that cyber attacks were responsible for computer errors that disrupted voting in a North Carolina county in 2016, according to a report issued Monday.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s report said it didn’t identify any malware or remote access to the Durham County Board of Elections systems that it analyzed.
After voter check-in software failed, federal authorities conducted a forensic analysis of the county’s electronic poll books to see if Russian military hackers who targeted the software provider may have tampered with registration information to disrupt voting.
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The Russians have already put a bullseye on the 2020 Olympics. Here's what else to watch out for.… https://t.co/rfCA82UrSy techreview (from Cambridge, MA) Thu Jan 02 11:30:20 +0000 2020
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