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
Temple university camera, the skies are still gray at this hour and those clouds are hovering over the region all day long, if you head out dont forget the umbrella, david murphy is joining us on the terrace with the details from accuweather. Cloudy and cool and a break in the action, it doesnt last long, look at stormtracker 6 live double scan there is light rain that is working its way toward philadelphia and here at our Camera Position along monument road. There is also now and then a heavier cell highlighted in yellow and darker shades of green and in Lancaster County we have a recent lightning bolt. I dont think a thunderstorm survives towards the east but we are in and out of this rain in the afternoon and later this afternoon getting steadier stuff coming in. You get that sense as you look at the wider view, lots of clouds out there and the initial band is fairly light but the second band east of pittsburgh includes heavier bands eye lighted in yellows. I think the rain has the
Collecting donations and saying prayers. They will need them. Five children on the bus have already been killed and none are older than the fourth grade. The school bus flipped off the roadway. They believe there are two sections. Scott a school bus packed with children slammed in a tree. It practically flipped flipped split the bus in half and flipped it on its side. According to the elementary three were in fourth grade. One in first grade. One only in kindergarten. It could have been my kids. These are babies trying to get home. Scott Police Arrested the driver, 24yearold rikaya johny walker who charged with reck lessen dawngerment and reckless driving. He was going fast. Mailbox and flipped over. Hit a tree real hard. Scott as the Investigation Continues into what caused the tragedy the community is coming together to grieve. The most unnatural thing in the world is for the parent to mourn the loss of a child. There are no words to bring comfort to a mother or a father. Today the c
South San Francisco Police Officer has lifethreatening injuries. The department recently released a picture of officer robby chon. Hes been on the force for 12 years and was on duty yesterday, thanksgiving day, when he was attacked. Abc7 News Reporter vic lee has the details. My son didnt know that this is a little mental. Reporter the suspect, luis ramoscoreas mother talked to us. She told us her son has mental issues and takes medication. Was he taking his medication yesterday . I dont know. He left very early in the morning. Reporter this grainy security video shows officer robby chon chasing the suspect. He stops and strikes the officer, who goes down. Another Security Camera picks up the suspect running down linden avenue after he attacked the officer. He was captured minutes later. The officer is a 12year veteran of the south San Francisco police department. He is married, and he has two young children. Reporter officer robby chon is assigned to the motorcycle unit. It happened y
Live where you live this is abc7 news. Panic at an east bay Movie Theater after a man is shot by a Security Guard. Good evening. Im eric thomas. One person has been taken to the hospital after an altercation at the Movie Theater in concord about 7 00 tonight. It forced an evacuation. Abc7 News Reporter is live with the latest developing details. Surge sergio . The shooting happened outside the building here, but a lot of theater goers thought the shots came from inside the movie multiplex and thats what caused so much panic. For the theater goers it was a bit of a panic. The security chased after them with the gun held in their hand. The suspect ran toward the parking lot and after that we heard a shot and then 102nds after we heard a shot. One person was rushed to the hospital. Investigators say it all happened because of some kind of exchange between the guard and the man who was shot. The suspect ran out of the theater and the Security Guard chased after him. At some point the suspe