Bicycles are probably the best way to get around New York City, especially during these days of empty roads and social distancing. There’s just one problem every aspiring city cyclist faces: bikes take up a lot of space in a shoebox apartment. Well, that and bike theft — which you know, is easier to prevent…
Threatpost editors discuss recent ransomware attacks and contact-tracing app privacy concerns.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
You’d have to have been living under a rock to have missed this week’s news that John Tyson, Chairman of the Board at meat processing giant Tyson Foods, declared in a letter published last Sunday as a full-page ad in The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that America’s “food supply chain is breaking.” But he’s wrong. The…
Las Vegas has extended its smart-city rollout with Japanese group NTT to cover high-definition optical and audio sensors at 14 locations across the city. The extension follows an initial trial, which provided information to city personnel to increase situational awareness and provide some minor traffic management data. The pilot has improved traffic congestion and wrong…
Ubisoft today announced it’s giving away two games to help get us through the pandemic. More specifically, it’s giving away the Discovery Tours, two educational offshoots of its Assassin’s Creed series that depict Ancient Greece or Ancient Egypt. If you’ve got kids to educate — or heck, if you want to educate yourself — they’re one of…
The fast-moving botnet has added an exploit for an unpatched bug in an unsupported version of the security gateway.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
You’d have to have been living under a rock to have missed this week’s news that John Tyson, Chairman of the Board at meat processing giant Tyson Foods, declared in a letter published last Sunday as a full-page ad in The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that America’s “food supply chain is breaking.” But he’s wrong. The…
Mexico City has completed one of the fastest-ever integrated deployments of a connected city-wide surveillance system. The Mexican capital has seen 13,720 LTE-based video cameras installed in four months. Austin-based video surveillance firm Eagle Eye Networks said it was installing 250 cameras per day in the city at the peak of the deployment, even as…
Facebook has just bought the popular GIF hosting platform GIPHY. In a blog post, GIPHY said it will be integrated into the Instagram team. While both companies have confirmed the deal, they haven’t disclosed the amount. A report by Axios suggests Facebook bough GIPHY for $400 million. GIPHY‘s API is quite popular amongst social networks. Facebook…
A new threat group uses NSIS as an installer to target industrial companies with revolving payloads, including LokiBot, FormBook, BetaBot, Agent Tesla and Netwire.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
