Jonathan Zdziarski wrote about an implementation challenge for the security conscious among us. While Whatsapp does delete the message when you tell it to, it leaves artifacts behind. Whatsapp and other phone apps use the SQLLite database. SQLLite, likely to reduce wear in your phone’s memory, doesn’t actually delete the message, but rather just marks […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Given the number of breaches that have happened in the last couple of years, many people have probably forgotten about the Scottrade breach. To refresh your memory, back in 2013 hackers breached the Scottrade customer database and had their way with the credentials of 4 million plus customers. Between September 2013 and February 2014, the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In 2013 a disgruntled Citibank employee decided to get even. Lennon Ray Brown, 38, who worked for Citi during 2012 and 2013 in the Dallas area, decided to teach the bank a lesson. On December 23, 2013, Brown sent a set of commands to 10 of the Citi global core routers. Those commands erased […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As more and more breaches happen every month, businesses everywhere need to consider what would happen if their company had a breach. Here is advice from the national law firm of Perkins Coie. Is the breach reportable? The list of data items which, when compromised, triggers a reportable breach keeps growing. For example, this year Illinois […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A bug in a software library used in a wide variety of communications products such as cell towers, routers and switches and even the radio chips inside of cell phones was recently announced. The library in questions implements standard known as ASN.1 and was developed by Objective Systems. While we are all used to, for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Federal judge in New York tossed evidence in a drug bust based on the use of a Stingray cell site simulator, But the devil is in the details. To be clear, this is not about getting a warrant to use a Stingray and catching a drug dealer. This is about lying to or omitting […]
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