In early March, a Swiss hacktivist by the name of Tillie Kottman successfully exposed businesses, police departments, schools, jails and hospitals in one of the most widespread cyber attacks in modern history, says Chris Rouland, founder and CEO of Phosphorus. How did they do it? By hacking into nearly 150,000 Verkada security cameras set to their default security settings. Kottman took credit […]
Daily Archives: April 5, 2021
Last week started with some sensible guidance on cyber security. By Wednesday the theory became a nightmare reality for one of the Internet of Things (IoT) majors, Vancouver-based Sierra Wireless as it was halted by an all-out ransomware attack. Of course, cyber security advice reaches us all the time, says Jeremy Cowan, and we regularly share the experts’ […]