The PCI Council, the standards body that dictates the rules for payment card (like Mastercard and Visa) merchants and service providers last year released a directive that everyone had to upgrade their software and eliminate SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 in favor of newer versions – TLS 1.1 and 1.2. The reason was that there […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apparently, in 2009 the developers at Arris, a manufacturer of cable modems for many cable providers, added a backdoor. They managed to keep it secret for a few years, but some details were leaked a couple of years ago. Now it is out in the open. At least for several models of the Arris modems, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When I read about the Mackeeper breach last week I didn’t quite grasp the implication of it. Now I do and it is much bigger than I understood. For those who have not seen the news, Mackeeper, which is an Apple Mac anti malware/clean up your machine kind of product that some people like and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: According to the Wired article below, the remote access issue was caused by a hard coded master password. Of course, now that people know there is one, they can look at the code and find it, which means that if you have not patched your Juniper firewalls, you are at a high risk for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the question of how cypto backdoors would work is unknown since there are no actual proposals on the table at this time, I am concerned that it will turn into a disaster. Partly this is because Congress does not understand technology. Out of 500 plus Congress critters, there are 5 that have a computer […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As we have seen all too often, the source of big cyber attacks is a small or medium enterprise (SME). The SME is a ripe target for hackers because those businesses do not have cyber security experts on staff. Many SME owners, not knowing what to do don’t do anything. Target, for example, was one. […]
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