Category: United States

83 Percent Of Routers Are Open To A High-Risk Vulnerability | Digital Trends

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A new study out by the American Consumer Institute shows that 83 percent of routers in the United States are vulnerable to cyberattacks.  The group finds that a majority of those routers have critical security vulnerabilities, primarily due to the lack of firmware updates. In testing a total of 186 routers from leading manufacturers like Netgear and Linksys, the study found that over 155 were vulnerable to potential cyberattacks. Individually, there were 172 vulnerabilities per router, and 32,003 vulnerabilities in total. Read full story here: 83 Percent Of Routers Are Open To…

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How Roadside Speed Signs In The U.S. Could Be Tracking You Using Canadian-Made Tech | National Post

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Canadian drivers who venture south of the border can soon expect to have their licence plate logged surreptitiously by the United States’ newest public surveillance tool: roadside speed signs. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency plans to expand its efforts to track licence plates around the country by embedding recognition technology inside digital displays that indicate the speed at which a vehicle is travelling, the news website Quartz reported this week. In addition to fulfilling their chief purpose — warning people who drive faster than the limit to slow down —…

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FEMA Is About To Send A ‘Presidential Alert’ To Millions Of U.S. Phones | TechCrunch

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In a few hours, millions of Americans will get a test emergency “Presidential Alert” message sent to their phone — a simulation in case the president ever needs to reach to entire country in a national emergency. At 2:18pm ET, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will send a short alert, saying: “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.” A few minutes later, televisions and radio broadcasts will briefly suspend and a similar message will run. The test was originally scheduled for mid-September…

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New Free Trade Deal With U.S. Will See Canada’s Duty-Free Limit Raised To $150 From $20 | CBC News

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Retailers say they are OK with new trade rules that will allow Canadians to buy more from the United States duty free — because dire alternatives that would have been worse never came to pass. One aspect of the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement announced over the weekend is an increase in the so-called de minimis threshold for duty-free shopping — the amount that Canadians can buy from a store in the U.S. and import to Canada without having to pay a duty. Under the old rules, Canada’s limit was $20. That’s much less than…

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Loonie Soars In The Wake Of The New Trade Deal With The U.S. And Mexico | CTV News

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The loonie traded higher at 78.13 cents US compared with an average of 77.25 cents US on Friday. While most economists have been expecting the Bank of Canada to raise its key interest rate target later this month, the trade negotiations have been a key uncertainty. The central bank had made a point of saying it was closely watching the NAFTA talks and other trade policy developments, which could hurt the economy. Read full story here: Loonie Soars In The Wake Of The New Trade Deal With The U.S. And Mexico…

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Ford And Panasonic Partner With Denver For V2X Car Communication | Digital Trends

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Panasonic’s Network Operations Center in Denver looks ripped straight from the pages of a Tom Clancy novel: Rows of computer workstations encircled by monitors, a wall of high-definition TVs, plush rolling chairs, call-center headsets, and urgently blinking LEDs, all soaked in surreal blue light. But they’re not tracking Soviet spies in here. Instead, the kind of guys who wear shirts patterned like graph paper are watching four colorful dots creep their way around the grid of a city map, like sedated Pac-Man ghosts. Each dot represents a real car, some…

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Canadian Borrowers Will Feel This Week’s U.S. Interest Rate Hike: Don Pittis | CBC News

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Markets are so certain that U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell will raise rates this week that a failure to hike would likely have worse consequences for American markets than the impact of higher borrowing costs. But the near certainty so cherished by market traders — who hate rude surprises — will provide little reassurance for the millions of people around the world, including over-borrowed Canadians, who will inevitably feel the effects of higher rates. And not only are market indicators showing a 100 percent expectation of a rate hike on Wednesday, most analysts expect another increase in December,…

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Hackers Have Planted Credit Card Stealing Malware On Local Government Payment Sites | TechCrunch

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Security firm FireEye has confirmed that a widely used web payment portal used to pay for local government services, like utilities and permits, has been targeted by hackers. Hackers have broken into self-hosted Click2Gov servers operated by local governments across the US, likely using a vulnerability in the portal’s web server that allowed the attacker to upload malware to siphon off payment card data over a period of “weeks to numerous months,” Nick Richard, principal threat intelligence analyst at FireEye, told TechCrunch. Read full story here: Hackers Have Planted Credit Card Stealing…

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Will Your Cannabis Credit Card Purchases Be Visible To U.S. Border Officials? (Some Might, Some Won’t.) – National | Globalnews.ca

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Legalizing cannabis is a complicated business with lots of moving parts. The question of how a credit card marijuana purchase will appear on your statement would seem not to make a list of the top 50 issues. And it wouldn’t, except for two awkward facts: U.S. law allows border officials to ban Canadians for life from their country for using marijuana in this country, even when it’s legal here. (A senior official confirmed last week that they are willing to do this in practice.) Read full story here: Will Your Cannabis Credit…

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Almost Half Of US Cellphone Calls Will Be Scams By Next Year, Says Report – CNET

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Expect even more spam calls in 2019. Many of us are already conditioned to ignore phone calls from unknown numbers. A new study seems to validate that M.O. By next year, nearly half of the mobile phone calls we get will be scams, according to a new report from First Orion, a company that provides calls management and protection for T-Mobile, MetroPCs, Virgin Mobile and others. The percentage of scam calls in US mobile traffic increased from 3.7 percent last year to 29.2 percent this year, and it’s predicted to rise to 44.6 percent…

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