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26 Sep

Ex-NSA Developer Gets 5.5 Years in Prison for Taking Top Secret Documents Home

A former NSA employee has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for illegally taking a copy of highly classified documents and hacking tools to his home computer between 2010 and 2015, which were later stolen by...
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30 Jun

Google Home and Chromecast DOWN? Reboot them to Fix the Glitch

If your Google Home, Home Mini and/or Google Chromecast streaming stick were not working properly, you are not alone. Google Home, Home Mini, and Chromecast were down globally for many users for several hours, leaving a lot of people with...
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26 May

A #Basic Z-Wave #Hack #Exposes Up To 100 #Million Smart #Home #Devices

So-called “smart” locks and alarms are proliferating across people’s homes, even though hackers have shown various weaknesses in their designs that contradict their claims to being secure. Now benevolent hackers in the U.K. have shown just how quick and easy...
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25 Mar

Protect your #connected #home devices from #hackers

As technology gets smarter, so do the hackers. Boyce Thompson, a Maryland-based author and public speaker who curates a Life-Changing Products exhibit that visits home shows across the country, offers these tips for keeping your devices secure: 1. Upgrade your router. Cable companies...
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13 Feb

Helping #insureds reach #corporate levels of #cyber security’ at #home

Source: National Cyber Security News Cyber security has become a top of mind issue for commercial organizations across the world. Most big corporations have strong disciplines and risk management procedures in place to ensure cyber resilience is tight. Unfortunately, the...
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26 Jan

Is our #smart home #growing more #vulnerable to #hacks?

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans As more of our cameras, speakers, thermostats and locks connect online, they’re increasingly open to meeting up with hackers. Hackers have come up with new ways to break into your data...
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31 Dec

How to #keep your #smartened-up #home safe from #hackers

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans More people are getting voice-activated speakers and other smart devices for convenience and security. But doing so could also be giving hackers a key to their homes. Many devices from reputable...
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2 Dec

Teenage restaurant #worker met a #man on a #dating site then went to his #home and tried to #kill him

A teenage restaurant worker left a man he met on a dating website covered in blood after trying to murder him in his own home. Gubair Boshir, 19, grabbed his victim in a choke hold before attacking him with a...
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2 Dec

Here’s the NSA Employee Who Kept Top Secret Documents at Home

A former employee—who worked for an elite hacking group operated by the U.S. National Security Agency—pleaded guilty on Friday to illegally taking classified documents home, which were later stolen by Russian hackers. In a press release published Friday, the US...
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18 Nov

Hackers Obtained #Access to #NSA Employee’s Home #Computer, #Kaspersky Lab Reveals

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Kaspersky Lab has updated its investigation on the hacking of a home computer used by an NSA employee. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Kaspersky IT security company has announced that access to information on the home...
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