security Archives - The Westside Story

Internet of Things brings new possibilities, but also causes for concern

Aug 1, 2017

The Internet of Things, or the IoT, refers to the ever widening web of internet connected devices ranging from cell phones to appliances to wearable devices to cars and beyond, which have become increasingly co...

Researchers develop simple, yet cutting edge, anti-counterfeiting measures

West Side Story

Jul 24, 2017

Headlines, Innovation

According to data from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, counterfeit products, fakes, and forgeries cost the global economy about half a trillion dollars annually in lost revenue every...

Russian hackers take brazen approach to World Anti-Doping Agency leak

West Side Story

Sep 17, 2016

Science, World

This past Tuesday, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was breached by hackers who leaked the records of a number of American athletes. The WADA identified the hackers as the “Fancy Bears international hack tea...

Tobacco producers to produce biofuel?

David

Jul 20, 2016

Innovation

They're certainly looking into it. Ever since it became apparent that smoking might not be the healthiest life choice, the number of smokers has been plummeting, at least in the West where the anti-tobacco camp...

US hacker admits hijacking flight control systems and engine

Abby Smith

May 17, 2015

Innovation

A security researcher, Chris Roberts, claimed that in between the year 2012 and 2014 he was able to hijack nearly 15 to 20 flights using the in-flight entertain systems. Connecting a computer to find the net...

GitHub DDoS attack continues, Baidu denies any involvement

Abby Smith

Mar 30, 2015

Innovation

The US-based source code collaboration website GitHub earlier was hit with DDOS attack, and recent investigation reveals that the attack originated from somewhere in China. China is apparently among the top not...

Slack hack leaks 500,000 users email and Skype IDs

Abby Smith

Mar 29, 2015

Innovation

Slack Technology, a firm that has developed workroom chat rooms, has been hacked leaking nearly 500,000 records containing personal information of the users. Slack has developed products that help the employees...

Tim Cook White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection

Tim Cook makes strong pro-privacy statements: Everyone has “right to privacy and security”

Amanda

Feb 16, 2015

Innovation

Tim Cook, the Apple CEO, made some strong pro-privacy statements while addressing the White House’s Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection held at Stanford University. He minced no words while urging g...

New unhackable credit card uses QSA nanotechnology

QSA quantum nanotechnology makes new Credit Cards unhackable

Charles Omedo

Dec 17, 2014

Innovation

Credit card owners and shoppers can now shop online with confidence against the knowledge that their credit cards are unhackable, courtesy of a new quantum-secure authentication (QSA) technology that uses enhan...

CAPTCHAs are now old school, Google introduces reCAPTCHA to fight spam on the web

Platonium

Dec 4, 2014

Innovation

Google has finally did something it should have done years ago, and that is removing the annoying CAPTCHA and replaced it with simple phrases such as, “What is Your Favorite Color?” CAPTHCAs are used to deciphe...

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