Everyone knows that the Sony breach was different than, say, the Target or Home Depot breach because of the damage that Sony is still, 10 weeks later, trying to recover from. But now, the insurance experts are adding yet another wrinkle – thanks Sony. According to the Hartford Courant, Sony may break new ground in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have been meaning to write about this for a week now, but a conversation I had last night with a security-geek friend (thanks, Tim!) allows me to combine two posts. Happy Friday! First, the subject line. Lizard Squad, the group that claimed responsibility for shutting down the Microsoft xBox and Sony Playstation networks on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Justice Department continues to push for the ability to bypass encryption (see here). Leslie Caldwell, one of the assistant AGs said that the DoJ is very concerned that Apple and Google have turned on encryption by default. I guess that must point to the fact that if people have to do something to turn […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The news is reporting that a nanny in Houston said that she heard voices coming from the baby monitor while she was changing her baby’s diaper last week. Apparently, someone was watching them and talking to them over the built in speaker in the baby monitor. That speaker is designed so that the parents, using […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Dark Reading is reporting that the NFL mobile app has a few problems in it – not so much different than NFL officiating. Wandera performed a scan of the app and discovered that after a successful login, the app leaks your credentials in an unencrypted API call. In addition, it leaks your login name and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Redmond Mag is reporting that AV-Test has ranked 28 Anti Virus software products against 153 pieces of zero day (meaning previously unknown) and 12,000+ pieces of known malware. AV-Test, based in Germany, has gotten sideways with Microsoft before. Microsoft has come in ranked very low on their tests several times. Microsoft says that the firm ranks […]
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