August 2015 – Page 3 – InfoHive

Techies Tell Us- DropBox and the like are Open Doors for Hackers

Computer Weekly’s Security Editor has a more succinct explanation replete with tech jargon:

“common file synchronisation services such as GoogleDrive and Dropbox for command and control, data exfiltration and remote access, security firm Imperva has revealed.”

At the 2015 Blackhat Security conference, businesses were urged to begin utilizing “perimeter security to data monitoring and data security.” For more advice, including their recommended security protocols for cloud…

Hacking Medical Devices. Federal Regulators Issue Warning.

Medical devices are interconnected. It creates better health care delivery and creates access points for hackers.

Federal regulators issued a warning that a pump used to deliver medicine to patients, the Symbiq Infusion System from medical device-maker Hospira, can be hacked by if access is gained to a hospital’s computer network.

Not the first time medical devices and hacking have ended up in the same sentence:

In 2011 it was shown that insulin pumps can be hacked.
In May , a…