Application penetration testing or pen test is more critical than ever and news today is only the most recent example of why. Spiral Toys makes a line of Internet connected teddy bears (aka smart bears, I guess) that allows parents and children who were physically apart to share personal messages. Unfortunately for the purchasers of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google and Uber are both working on self driving cars, for different reasons. Google has had a strong lead in the game – until. Google’s self driving car subsidiary called Waymo says it has spent millions of dollars perfecting the technology for self driving cars. A former Google employee, Anthony Levandowski, started the self driving […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Smart cars are very in these days. You can start it remotely, lock or unlock the doors, even find out where the car is. We also saw a smart car get taken over – turning the steering wheel 90 degrees while the car was going 60 MPH and controlling the gas and brakes. But what […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cloudflare, the company that helps web sites perform when under stress, including when under denial of service attacks, was the victim of a self induced cyber breach. For those who are not familiar with Cloudflare, it acts as a front end to a customer company’s web servers. With Cloudflare in front of a company’s servers, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Right after Yahoo announced all of the different breaches, the expectation was that Verizon merger offer would be modified or totally go away. Well, there is some news and it is probably not as bad as it could be. Many people were suggesting that the price would go down by a billion dollars and that Verizon […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]At least in Pennsylvania, a court says the answer is no. Here are the details. The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center was hacked and employee’s personal information was taken and used to file phony tax refunds. Information taken included names, socials, birth dates, addresses and salaries. The Superior Court of Pennsylvania recently ruled that employees […]
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