Live where you live, this is abc7 news. Can someone look into my home through my tv or turn brakes off on my car. New quay questions after a cyber attack on friday. The hackers used devices you could have in in your home. Good evening. Baby monitors, dvrs and washing machines. Yesterdays internet attack crippled many major websites and Security Experts say this could just be the beginning. Tiffany wilson is live with the story. Chris, right now tens of millions of devices like you mentioned make up the internet of things, but in a few years experts expect that number will grow into the tens of pls, and they warn if the devices dont get security, all of us will be at risk. Household appliances used to launch an attack. It happened yesterday in Cyber Security expert mark says the internet of things is likely to be played again. Were seeing more and more texts exploiting these types of devices against various targets. Starting friday morning things were transformed to an army overwhelming
Warmest locations inland new questions are being raised after the mass itch cyber attack on friday. Hackers used devices us could have in your home to shut down the internet. It crippled several major websites and stewart experts say this could be just the beginning. A about. C7 News Reporter Tiffany Wilson explains. Household appliances used to launch an attack. Cybersecurity expert said the internet of things is likely to be played again. We are seeing more and more texts exploiting these type of devices against targets. Starting friday morning hackers transformed everything from Baby Monitors to vacuum cleaners into an army overwhelming servers with phony requests. Its called a distributed denial of Service Attack and meant people couldnt watch netflix or use twitter. New world hackers claimed responsibility. The affect End Companies lost money in customers. He said we should really be concerned about the riske to us individually. For example, he worries a hacker could blackmail you
Attack crippled several major websites. Security experts are warning this could be just the beginning. Abc7 News Reporter Tiffany Wilson explains. Household appliances used to launch an attack. A cybersecurity expert said the internet of things is likely to be played again. We are seeing more and more texts exploiting these type of devices against targets. Starting friday morning hackers transformed everything from Baby Monitors to vacuum cleaners into an army overwhelming servers with phony requests. Its called a distributed denial of Service Attack and meant people couldnt watch netflix or use twitter. The group new world hackers claimed responsibility. I would say its too early to see who is behind it. The affected companies lost money in customers. He said we should really be concerned about the risk to us individually. For example, he worries a hacker could blackmail you by threatening to turn the brakes off in your car or peering into your babys monitor. Every single one of those
Good morning, everyone, im carolyn tyler. Thanks for joining us on this sunday, october 23rd. Lets start with a quick look at the weather with our meteorologist drew tuma in for lisa argen. Good morning. The sun is out. 48 degrees, same in Half Moon Bay, push being the bay waters around 50. 355 san jose. San francisco 53 degrees. East bay hills camera showing we have a lot of sunshine except right along the coast right now. The fog is thick. We will see the fog evaporate a bit. Today a mixture of sunshine and clouds in the afternoon. Comfortable, 63 San Francisco, about 68 oakland, 72 san jose and 70 in napa. We are tracking a couple chances of rain. We will show you next on the sevenday forecast coming up. Carolyn. Thank you wet are developing breaking news in the east bay this morning. Shots were fired at officers, as well as several other people. It all happened just before midnight near 77th and bancroft avenues. Police say several men, ranging in age from 27 to 45, have been injur
Periods of heavy rain from 4 00 to 7 00. The evening commute could be worse than the morning commute. And its not starting well, alexis. No, its not. We have a Traffic Alert in the Central Valley. Westbound 580, we have a crash at north flynn road. Five vehicles involved. We still have the far left lane blocked and westbound 580 tracy to dublin, we are up to 47 minutes. Well get to video from overnight in the richmond area. Hilltop drive, the eastbound onramp 280 is closed still this morning along with some closures on hilltop. If youre going to be traveling in that area, we still have an investigation underway. Police unfortunately found a body overnight and they are not sure if the person was hit by a vehicle or what the circumstances were. So that investigation is ongoing. As soon as we get an update and confirmation the roads are back open, well certainly let you know. A couple other crashes to get to as well, well have an update coming up in less than ten. Were tracking breaking n