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About 8.4 billion “Web-connected things” will be in use worldwide this year according to estimates from research firm Gartner. That’s up 31 percent from 2016, and will reach 20.4 billion by 2020. That explosion is leaving consumers at risk of being breached. Read more

The motive behind helping other hackers was money. As per the police who caught him, his website had silver, gold and VIP packages. Each package for the severity of the damage that a hacker wanted to do on a specific website. Jack was making money by aiding hackers to hack into systems. Read more

Search for ‘Youbit hacked’ and you will come across hundreds of articles on it as it is the biggest news of the week. Youbit is a South Korean exchange that got hacked last week. As per reports, it is believed that around one-fifth of the clients’ holdings were stolen by unknown hackers lasT Tuesday. Read

Security researchers from security firm Elttam have discovered a critical vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2017-17562) in GoAhead tiny web server that affects many IoT devices, the vulnerability allows attacker to execute malicious code remotely on affected devices. Read more

Gaps in software systems are slowing down security teams who are estimated to spend 10 hours a week dealing with the inefficiencies. More a third of IT decision-makers estimated that their security staff spent at least three hours daily on tasks that otherwise could have been handled by better software, revealed a study commissioned by

US intelligence chiefs on Thursday sounded the alarm about the imminent expiration of a law that allows them to spy on overseas web users, and called on Congress to renew it immediately. Read more

 FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) When it comes to holiday shopping, the last thing on your mind is toy hackers. However, experts are warning consumers to think twice before purchasing toys for their loved ones. Read more

A few months ago Switch hackers showed the handheld had a hidden emulator designed to play NES Golf but only on July 11th, the date Satoru Iwata, former President of Nintendo and the game’s programmer, died. Now they say the company has overwritten the code as of the 4.0.0 firmware update. Read more

Snowden told Moudeina that he was operating on an app that could turn a mobile device into a kind of motion sensor in form to notify you when your things are being tampered with. The app could also tell you when someone had opened your room without you identifying, if someone had moved your things,

Public Wi-Fi is particularly susceptible to attacks of this nature, due to the fact that any HTTP site data being transmitted is unencrypted, effectively rendering your data public. Through compromised routers, attackers can steal reams of personal information, and give an attacker access to financial logins, private messages, usernames and passwords,” said Poorter. Read more