I don’t know about you, but I am not inclined to believe that my cell phone provider is the best company to protect my security, but they disagree. And who knows – maybe it could work. The basis of Project Verify is that each cell phone has a unique fingerprint that allows the carrier to […]
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Sometimes the gift that keeps on giving is good. Other times, it is not so good. In this case, it is not so good. You may remember the Wannacry ransomware attack last year. That virus, which took many organizations back to the stone age of computing (i.e., a pencil and paper), infected and took down […]
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How, Exactly, Would the Government Keep a Crypto Backdoor Secret? The Five Eyes (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain) countries issued a statement last week saying that if software makers did not voluntarily give them a back door into encrypted apps they may pursue forcing them to do that by law. Australia and […]
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While we all know about the Equifax breach last year that compromised the data of almost 150 million people and businesses, until today we did not know about the Equifax hack two years earlier. In the earlier hack, former employees – actually Chinese spies – stole thousands of pages of documents including plans for new […]
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Researchers have figured out how to hack a Telsa’s key fob in under two seconds. That’s impressive. Remotely. I think in this case remotely means that they do not have to touch the fob or the car, but they have to be pretty damn close to it – in radio range of the fob. Still, […]
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As I have reported before, car manufacturers do not seem to care about whether the last owner still controls that used car that you just bought. While the issue of previous owners still having the ability to locate, unlock and even remote start some cars, car makers don’t seem to be doing anything about it […]
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