While we focused during the election on possibly classified emails on Hillary Clinton’s mail server, in Europe they have their own version. Shodan, the IoT search engine turned up on an Internet connected disk drive that was not password protected. While Trump says that Clinton should be thrown in jail, in Europe they said it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ever wonder how much a hacker charges to hack someone’s email for you? Wonder no more. Dell Secureworks, now a separate publicly traded company, publishes an annual report on the cost of crime. They look at both Russian speaking and English speaking underground markets. So here it is. Place your orders soon 🙂 $129 – […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is common mythology that Bitcoin users are thieves, hackers and tax cheats. The IRS doesn’t like tax cheats. The IRS is asking a court for a “John Doe” summons asking Coinbase, a Bitcoin exchange, to turn over information on any customers that match a certain criteria. The summons applies as long as the government […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: Apparently Paypal was one of the companies affected by some of these OAuth security holes and they just released a fix (Dec 1,2016) for a bug that would allow hackers to steal OAuth tokens from payment apps of third party developers. Many web sites encourage you to sign on with your social media userid […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: While the ticket kiosks are back online, the hacker is saying that if the Muni doesn’t fix security problems and pay the ransom by Friday that they are going to release the data that they have taken. Passengers entering the San Francisco Muni rail system were greeted by the message “You Hacked” on Friday […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We don’t seem to remember history very well, so, I guess, we are doomed to repeat it. A Chinese company, ADUPS, makes a technology that a number of phone manufacturers buy and use. It allows the manufacturer to update the firmware in a phone or IoT device over the air (meaning, I assume, over the […]
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