In this week’s edition Kaspersky Lab’s podcast, Dave and Jeff look at hackable heating, using Twitter to predict traffic jams and how to stop the spread of fake news.
In this week’s edition of the Transatlantic Cable podcast, David and I chat about how Twitter was used by a researcher to help predict traffic jams in Canada, how Mozilla took a wrong step trying to promote Mr. Robot, hackable heating controllers as well as what Google is doing to help stop the spread of fake news.
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The new Loapi Trojan will recruit your smartphone for DDoS attacks, bombard it with ads, or use it to mine cryptocurrency, making it red-hot.
Why subscription owners need to prioritize personal and family cybersecurity.
We’ve revisited our study on the crackability of real-world passwords leaked on the dark web — originally conducted two years ago. The findings are sobering: nearly every other password can be cracked in under a minute, and three out of five take less than an hour. How can we move away from insecure passwords?
Smart sex toys and their companion apps collect and process some extremely personal data. We break down the risks involved, and ways to protect your privacy.
Protecting a security console is more critical than one might think. Here’s the lowdown on control-layer compromise, and how to keep it from happening.
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