It wasn’t a hack, cyberattack or even a sophisticated scam. The chaos that hit everything from airlines to hospitals to banks on Friday (July 19) was caused by a faulty software update from security company CrowdStrike. However, security is at the top of the table...
Software security firm McAfee discovered a security flaw in the Android operating system powering Peloton Bike+ that could potentially give hackers the ability to spy on riders or steal their personal data, McAfee said in a press release. Sam Quinn and Mark Bereza, both security researchers...
Europol has announced that when it comes to internet-based organized crime, bitcoin is still king, “While we have previously reported a small shift towards more privacy-focused cryptocurrencies such as Monero, Bitcoin still remains the currency of choice for both legitimate and criminal use,” Europol reported...
Antivirus pioneer John McAfee claims that he knows the true identify of bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. But after telling Bloomberg he would expose Nakamoto “within a week,” McAfee said Tuesday (April 23) on Twitter that he was holding off because the controversy it would cause...
July 22, 2024
It wasn’t a hack, cyberattack or even a sophisticated scam. The chaos that hit everything from airlines to hospitals to banks on Friday (July 19) was caused by a faulty software update from security company CrowdStrike. However, security is at the top of the table in the Connected Economy this week, and as it tries […]
January 06, 2025
McAfee debuted a tool to combat the rising tide of text, email and video scams. The McAfee Scam Detector, announced Monday (Jan. 6) at the CES show in Las Vegas, uses artificial intelligence to analyze and flag risky messages in real time, according to a Monday press release. “That ‘Hi, how are you?’ text from […]
June 16, 2021
Software security firm McAfee discovered a security flaw in the Android operating system powering Peloton Bike+ that could potentially give hackers the ability to spy on riders or steal their...
October 15, 2019
Europol has announced that when it comes to internet-based organized crime, bitcoin is still king, “While we have previously reported a small shift towards more privacy-focused cryptocurrencies such as Monero,...
April 25, 2019
Antivirus pioneer John McAfee claims that he knows the true identify of bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. But after telling Bloomberg he would expose Nakamoto “within a week,” McAfee said Tuesday...