Advertisers and web site owners have always wanted to know who is visiting their web sites and tracking interests across web sites. Early on advertisers used cookies, but then users started blocking cookies or erasing them. Then they moved on to Flash cookies which are very hard to erase. But of course, a lot of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Japanese researchers released a paper talking about the (hypothetical) risk of flashing the peace sign. As we saw a couple of years ago with a German politician, a high definition photo from close enough (a few meters away according to the researchers) , with the right lighting, allowed the researchers to replicate the fingerprint. Apparently, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Israeli company Cellebrite, known for building hardware and software to extract data from most cell phones, was itself hacked. Earlier this week a hacker gave Motherboard 900 gigabytes of data from Cellebrite. We do not know if this is all they have or merely the beginning of a long trickle. Motherboard says that there […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]About four months, a security firm named Medsec discovered some flaws in St Jude Medical’s cardiac implantable products. The accepted way to deal with this is to privately let the manufacturer know what you found, let them fix it and then release your research. In this case, Medsec had been told that St. Jude would […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]MongoDB, the free and open source NoSQL database (see Wikipedia entry here) that is used by hundreds of thousands of web sites is under attack. A number of attackers are using search engines like Shodan to find Mongo databases that are exposed to the Internet and attempting to compromise them. Apparently, a surprising number of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I wrote the other day about hackers stealing your phone number to be able to capture the text messages for password resets. Here is another reason to be concerned about the security of your phone and phone number. The banks are walking a tightrope. Millennials just don’t relate to banks the way their parents do, […]
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