When you log on to a “secure” web site – one that that you access via HTTPS:// instead of HTTP:// , you do that because the web site bought a certificate from a certificate authority. Those certificates work because the browsers – all of them – “trust” the makers of those certificates. How do those […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers wanted to know if self driving cars could be fooled and how hard it would be. For those of you who don’t want the read the rest of the article, the answer to the first question is yes and the answer to the second question is not very hard. Here are the test signs. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Earlier this year, the Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, New York was hit with a ransomware attack. ECMC is a level 1 trauma center, teaching hospital and regional center for a variety of medical services – including, unfortunately, ransomware. At 2 A.M. on Palm Sunday computer screens across the medical center flashed “What happened […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We usually think of Internet of Things (IoT) devices as smart light bulbs or door locks or cameras, but there are some IoT devices that are a little bigger and a lot more expensive. In this case, it is a multi-million dollar Cat Scanner that hospitals and imaging centers use to create diagnostic images. Siemens […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Voting Village was the place to be at Defcon if you are interested in the security of your vote. The sponsors of the village bought 30 voting machines – many on eBay. Full disclosure – some of these models are no longer in use, but others are still in use. One older (in use until […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lets combine all the possible cyber risk concerns into one sentence. A bug in an open source library used by major IoT vendors is raising the spectre of software supply chain/vendor risk management issues for all developers. The vendor in question is Axis Communications. Whether you know it or not, you have seen their security cameras across the country including […]
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