Several months ago the White House floated a trial balloon about banning the use of personal cell phones by staffers in the West Wing due to security concerns. You may remember that John Kelly was using his personal cell phone for government business and it was owned by hackers for six months before he figured […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: Google’s Project Zero released information about the flaw and attacks as reports and speculation escalated (see here). Reporters, including this one, are just learning the details of this. An FAQ about the attack, which says that it affects Intel, AMD and ARM processors is available here. It does, they say, affect every microprocessor […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Update: Apparently if you are running macOS 10.13 and apply the patch to fix the root problem and then upgrade to 10.13.1, that patch gets undone, so you have to reapply the patch. In addition, the patch does not take effect unless you reboot. Just another bit of the mess. The Mac OS has generally […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]21st Century Oncology, who bills itself as the world’s largest operator of cancer treatment centers with 179 locations, suffered a breach in 2015, losing control of 2+ million patient records. According to law firm Motley Rice, they found out about the breach when the FBI notified them – not a great way to start your […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: A 25 year Los Angeles resident, Tyler Barriss, has been arrested by police. Barriss has served time in California for making threats. As a repeat offender and possibly being charged by both state and federal authorities, this idiot’s game is likely “game over” for the rest of his life. Swatting, the practice of calling in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]To be fair, this test was based on choosing PINs from among a list of 50 random PINs. The researchers collected a pool of data for 500 test PINs and used that along with the data collected from the test cases to guess the PIN used almost 100% of the time, on the first guess. […]
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