New Web Attack Will Crash Your iPhone, iPad or Mac A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your i-device with just 15 lines of code. The code exploits a weakness in iOS’ web rendering engine WebKit, which Apple mandates all apps and browsers use. Anything that renders HTML on iOS is affected. That […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A security researcher has found, he thinks, years worth of customer data available on Craigslist. Not exactly the dark web. The servers were from bankrupt computer store chain NCIX. The seller had, supposedly, hundreds of servers that were in storage. The storage company owner was selling the servers after NCIX did not pay their storage […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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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