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
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