Professional Athletes and Wearables

I haven’t thought about the privacy issues surrounding professional athletes and wearables. Wearables present serious privacy issues for “Average Joe” consumers, who are entrusting tech companies to safely store and protect their biometric data. Imagine the stakes for a professional…

AryStinger Botnet Uses Intranet Scanning and Traffic Tunneling to Hide Attacker Activity

A newly analyzed botnet family, AryStinger, weaponizes long‑neglected routers and NAS appliances to build a stealthy reconnaissance and relay infrastructure that helps attackers obscure origin and extend lateral reach. AryStinger leverages decade‑old vulnerabilities in RTL819X‑based routers and a more feature‑rich…