So while you might not want to connect your coffee pot to Twitter, Rad believes that most consumers shouldn't worry too much
about hackers compromising their individual homes.
Security: There have been plenty of headlines
about hackers compromising home cameras, baby monitors, and other Wi - Fi devices to spy on people, so be sure to check what steps has each manufacturer taken to eliminate this problem.
Not exact matches
«Yesterday morning at
about 1 a.m. a
hacker or a group of
hackers was able to infiltrate our systems through a
compromised company computer,» NiceHash CEO Marko Kobal said in a video statement Thursday.
Avi Rubin shows how
hackers are
compromising cars, smartphones and medical devices, and warns us
about the dangers of an
Dramatic scenarios of moral and ethical lapses are everywhere on the Internet: the college student who used his webcam to secretly film his roommate, who later committed suicide; the high school students who tweeted
about the rape of a fellow student; the
hackers who stole
compromising photographs from celebrities and posted them to a public site, where commenters blamed the celebrities for their predicament.
If each of those passwords represents a person, that means the
hackers compromised about 17 % of the world's population.
However, these default settings are common knowledge (and if you don't know them, you can find them with Google in
about five seconds), and
hackers can use them to
compromise a network, computer or other device.
Separately, there was a flap earlier this week
about hackers and spies being able to slip into Signal - protected WhatsApp group chats by
compromising WhatsApp servers.
Security researchers remain worried that the leak could help
hackers compromise iPhones and iPads, but Apple says there's nothing to worry
about.
Tavis Ormandy, a security researcher at Google's Project Zero team, made the vulnerabilities public by tweeting
about the successful exploitation Kaspersky's anti-virus product in such a way that users could find their systems easily
compromised by malicious
hackers.
Brokers should set policies and educate agents
about what to do if
hackers compromise the brokerage's network.