Alexa Can Hear Commands You Can’t, Which Hackers Could Exploit

If you didn’t already know…

Your smart speaker can hear sounds that humans can’t, meaning attackers could hypothetically trigger a command without you noticing. It’s happening in labs right now.

MyEtherWallet DNS Hack Causes 17 Million USD User Loss

Big news in the crypto scene this week was that the MyEtherWallet DNS Hack that occured managed to collect about $17 Million USD worth of Ethereum in just a few hours.

Russia Hacks Into U.S. Power Plants, But Nuclear Reactors Should Be Impervious

Yeah Cheeto has nada to say…. maybe Melania is a KGB hit-woman lolololol

According to an alert from the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team yesterday, Russia has hacked into many of our government entities and domestic companies in the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation and critical manufacturing sectors – essentially most of what makes our country go.

Biggest-Ever DDoS Attack (1.35 Tbs) Hits Github Website

I was just hearing about this type of DDoS attack…

On Wednesday, February 28, 2018, GitHub’s code hosting website hit with the largest-ever distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that peaked at record 1.35 Tbps.
Interestingly, attackers did not use any botnet network, instead weaponized misconfigured Memcached servers to amplify the DDoS attack.

Check Linux for Spectre or Meltdown vulnerabilityMeltdown vulnerability

yeah Linux is vulnerable too..

Devices running Linux are affected by Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities as much as their Windows counterparts.

Deloitte Hacked — Cyber Attack Exposes Clients’ Emails

This is the results of hiring mediocre idiots in technology who can’t do jack and leave public data unprotected in a den of wolves…

Another day, another data breach. This time one of the world’s “big four” accountancy firms has fallen victim to a sophisticated cyber attack.

Here comes the class action lawsuit after Equifax’s massive hack

Why do companies, who keep our info, don’t take security seriously is beyond my understandings as a logical being…. go to equifaxsecurity2017.com and see if u have been hacked..

Yesterday, Equifax announced that a hacker obtained information about 143 million consumers. This data included Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some cases, driver license numbers. Equifax customers are obviously really, really mad. So it’s not surprising that Bloomberg discovered that a class action lawsuit was filed against Equifax.

Cheap Gaming PC CPU: Ryzen 3 or Pentium G4560? BroadPwn Will Ruin Your Phone, Best LED Light Bulbs!

To think the voting machines were pwned this easy (minutes) and the fact that some were running XP long after support is ended is asinine or by design…

Ryzen 3 or Pentium G4560? BroadPwn Will Ruin iOS or Android, Voting Machines Hacked, Best LED Light Bulbs! DEF CON 25

Alleged NSA hack group Shadow Brokers releases new trove of exploits

Shadow Brokers, the group behind last year’s release of hacking exploits allegedly used by the National Security Agency, has dropped another trove of files.

CNN uses screenshot from ‘Fallout 4’ to show how Russians hack things

So much for the so-called news?

The thing about computer hacking is that it’s such a general, far-reaching term that it’s almost impossible to explain to someone who isn’t already familiar with it.