At least one head rolls after second Florida city pays gigantic ransom demand to ransomware gang.
Source: Florida city fires IT employee after paying ransom demand last week | ZDNet
Recovery can cost more than the ransom.
Source: Paying ransom in cyber attacks may be cities’ best bet
When is a smart home not so smart? When it can be hacked. That’s exactly what security researchers Chase Dardaman and Jason Wheeler did with one of the Zipato smart hubs. In new research published Tuesday and shared with TechCrunch, Dardaman and Wheeler found three security flaws which, when chained together, could be abused to […]
Source: Security flaws in a popular smart home hub let hackers unlock front doors – TechCrunch
Security researchers found critical vulnerabilities in three different virtual reality applications that would have allowed hackers to take control of victims’ computers.
Source: Hackers Hijacked VR Chatrooms to Manipulate Users’ Reality