An international hacker collective wanting to show how monitored we are and how easy surveillance systems are to hack, breached camera-maker Verkada, gaining access to the video systems of all its customers which included hospitals, prisons, schools and police stations, and companies such as Tesla, Cloudflare and others, according to Swiss hacker Tillie Kottmann, who … Read more
Around 24 hours after being hit by the big malware attack that affected 100 countries, 97% of UK hospitals were back to normal. There is talk that the computers were breached through a vulnerability in older Microsoft systems which was long ago identified by the NSA and which the NSA included it in its list … Read more
Most prominent among the victims: The UK’s National Health Service. Dozens of hospitals and medical centers had to be closed. Treatment was postponed, ambulances diverted. Appointments couldn’t be made because it was too dangerous. Medical workers had no access to important information. However, some security firms reported that most of the affected computers were in … Read more
The WannaCry virus that shut down the UK health system this week is still making its rounds. It has now reached 150 countries and is continuing to spread. It is expected that the hackers behind the ransomware will update it Monday, so it will be even more dangerous. Computer security experts say that everyone should … Read more