If you have about $12 to spare, you can eavesdrop on many wireless USB keyboards. That means that you can capture web sites, userids, passwords, socials, credit card numbers and anything else someone might type in. The problem with the USB keyboard (and likewise USB mouse) standards is that the standard didn’t say anything about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A lot of big financial institutions are ‘investigating’ the use of the blockchain technology that the digital currency Bitcoin uses. I would point out that this is very different that endorsing the use of Bitcoin. In 2014 the Mount Gox Bitcoin exchange filed for bankruptcy after a breach lost $460 million. In May of this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A thousand-fold increase in crypto malware (AKA ransomware) is a pretty impressive number. The reason is that it is like taking candy from a baby – not very hard. Rather than having to figure out how to break into a computer, then figure out where the juicy data is, next getting it back to you without […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While Disney probably thinks that their 350,000 or so users who got hacked is a big thing, in the grand scheme of things, it is not so big. The Playdom site is the official forum for Starwars, Marvel and other Disney games. It is kind of surprising that there were only 350,000 names hacked. First, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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