News
Medical Devices Are Ubiquitous, Vital, And Often Unsecure
Posted on · Hundreds of health devices, including heart monitors, CT machines and anesthesia devices are all open targets
Tag: hackers
News
When Companies You Trust with Personal Data Get Hacked, How Can You Keep Yourself Safe?
Posted on · From credit bureaus to social networks, all kinds of businesses have lost customer data to hackers. You can prepare for the inevitable, and respond to breeches that have already happened.
City of Houston
Houston Tests Its Preparedness for A Cyberattack
Posted on · The city is conducting a three-day exercise to find out how well it would react to such an attack on top of a major disaster.
News
Russian Hackers Targeted More Than 200 Journalists Globally
Posted on · About 50 of the journalists worked at The New York Times
Houston Matters
Understanding the Many Factors that Determine Prison Sentences
Posted on · On July 18, 2016, former St. Louis Cardinals scouting director Chris Correa was sentenced to 46 months in prison for repeatedly illegally logging into the Houston Astros’ computer database. When the news broke reaction was swift – and surprising. As the scandal was already well documented, many skipped taking Correa rightly to task for what he […]
Good, Bad and Ugly
Police Protection Act and Astros Hacker Sentenced: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of the News
Posted on · A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it downright ugly. When faced with intriguing developments in the week’s news, we turn to our rotating panel of “non-experts” to parse The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of it all. On this edition, we discuss: Gov. […]
News
Noodles And Company Latest To Suffer Security Breach
Posted on · The restaurant chain Noodles and Company says guests who dined at the restaurant between January 31, 2016 and June 2, 2016 may have had credit or debit card information stolen.
News
What Does The FBI’s Latest Effort To Break Into Farook’s iPhone Mean For Mobile Security?
Posted on · One IT security expert says hackers have been finding ways into secure mobile devices for years. But could the FBI's focus on one particular iPhone result in a new wave of hacking attacks?
Technology
UH Researchers Work On Project To Protect 911 From Hackers
Posted on · With the help of a federal grant, computer scientists from the University of Houston are developing software that aims to shield the next generation of 911 from cyber attacks.
Houston Matters
Making Sense of the Astros Hacking Story
Posted on · The story dominating attention in Major League Baseball this past week has been the revelation that some unnamed members of the St. Louis Cardinals’ front office staff are under federal investigation for allegedly hacking into an internal network of the Houston Astros. The system — dubbed “Ground Control” — contained proprietary statistics, analysis, scouting reports, […]
Houston Matters
Third Houston Hackathon Brings Designers and Programmers Together to Improve Life in the City
Posted on · This weekend (May 16-17, 2015) programmers, graphic designers and other multimedia professionals will participate in the third City of Houston Hackathon. Now, the word “hack” might conjure something negative, but — as organizer Jeff Reichman tells Houston Matters’ Michael Hagerty — the purpose is to bring together dozens of the city’s creative professionals to find ways […]
Houston Matters
How Vulnerable is the Oil and Gas Industry to Cyber Attacks?
Posted on · The annual Energy Security Council conference kicks off in the Woodlands today. The event will focus on security for the oil, gas, electricity, power, pipeline, transmission and service sectors. Then, on Wednesday, leading cyber security analysts will gather for the Secure World conference in Westchase. There’s also the annual Cyber Security for Oil and Gas […]
Houston Matters
How Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks are Houston’s Energy and Healthcare Companies?
Posted on · Tomorrow the Greater Houston Partnership holds its annual Cybersecurity Forum. It’s a gathering of experts and business leaders to discuss how agencies, businesses and organizations can protect themselves against cyber attacks. Since last year’s forum, the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, released a new set of cyber standards – guidelines […]
Full Show
Corporal Punishment, Cybersecurity and Turning Recycling Trucks into Art: Houston Matters for Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014
Posted on · The case of NFL star Adrian Peterson being accused of child abuse has brought the topic of corporal punishment to the minds of the nation and many in Greater Houston. Many have criticized his alleged actions — but plenty have defended him saying they were also hit by their parents growing up. On this edition […]