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there are hacking concerns this week in
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Las Vegas we've learned that Metro
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Police have put out a cyber awareness
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advisory with some cyber conventions in
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town and foxes Joe vill has new details
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Metro Police put out information on what
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to do before during and after these
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conventions the black hat convention is
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going on at manlay Bay this brings in
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major cyber security companies that work
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to thwart big hacks that can cost
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companies millions of dollars the MGM
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hack is one example also in town this
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week is the Defcon convention which I'm
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told is for hackers one local cyber
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security company says government tries
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to recruit skilled hackers here there
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are hacking competitions and companies
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ask hackers to go after their products
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to see what the weaknesses are and
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listen to what a local cyber security
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company told us about cyber safety on
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the Strip this week for anybody that may
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be going down to the strip it's highly
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recommended that you turn off the Wi-Fi
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as well as the Bluetooth on your phones
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because the phones can be vulnerable to
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and I've heard that there's this thing
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called The Wall of Shame where they put
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a list of the names and telephone
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numbers and information about the phones
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that they hack I don't know if that's
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still true um that they're still doing
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it but it's always highly recommended to
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do that and Wilkinson says the sphere
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would be a big hacking Target this week
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saying who wouldn't want to claim they
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got some kind of message up on the
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sphere I did reach out to the sphere
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about that but haven't heard back we
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also reached out to Defcon but didn't
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and more details now about Metro's cyber
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awareness advisory which specifically
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mentions black hat and Defcon and
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precautions to take like Wilkinson
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mentioned Metro advises people to turn
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off all Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and use a
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reliable VPN or put your phone on
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airplane mode lock devices and don't
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leave them unattended restart your phone
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daily to remove temporary malware
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installations and Metro says cash is
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King avoid using credit cards or any
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contactless payment methods
