Apple says all Macs, iPhones, iPads exposed to chip flaw
Apple Inc. said all Mac computers and iOS devices, like iPhones and iPads, are affected by chip security flaws unearthed this week.
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Bank information taken in hack of Duke Energy vendor
Nearly 375,000 Duke Energy Corp. customers may have had personal and banking information stolen in a data breach.
Local tech firm rolls out $1M ransomware protection guarantee
LifeOmic Inc., a fledgling Indianapolis-based tech company that provides cloud storage to medical users, is trying to make a rapid splash in the health care IT industry by offering what its says is an unprecedented marketing promise.
Uber concealed hack that exposed data for 57 million people
Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber Technologies Inc., a massive breach that the company concealed for more than a year.
Wi-Fi-enabled devices automate more houses
Smart-home products are poised to become a $60 billion global industry, according to research firm MarketsandMarkets. Yet consumers need spend only a few hundred dollars on each item to make their lives more automated.
Five ways IoT, innovation will change the way we stay secure
IBJ asked Allegion futurist Rob Martens to tell us how security technology will change our lives moving forward. His answers are as much about information and data as they are about physical barriers.
New wave of ransom threats seen in unprecedented attack
More than 200,000 computers in at least 150 countries have so far been infected, according to the European Union’s law enforcement agency. The U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre said new cases of so-called ransomware are possible “at a significant scale.”
Lawsuits: Hackers stole customer data at 1,000 Arby’s stores
Arby's Restaurant Group failed to prevent hackers from stealing customer information at hundreds of its locations, a couple says in a new federal lawsuit. Eight credit unions and banks from Indiana and other states have filed seven other related federal lawsuits.
Russian hackers to be charged in massive Yahoo breach
The Justice Department is preparing to announce charges against four defendants, including two Russian security services officers, in a data breach that affected at least a half-billion user accounts, according to a federal law enforcement official.
Madison County taking steps to avoid another computer system hack
County staffers have worked many hours of overtime restoring links between the computer software and county files that were broken in the hacking attack on Nov. 4.
Cybersecurity, big data top priorities for state’s IT chief
Dewand Neely recently spoke with IBJ about cybersecurity, the innovation his office is driving, and being one of only a few African-American state government CIOs in the country.