The Register is reporting that there are a couple of ways a hacker can take over a PC just by having you insert a Blu-Ray disc. The first method exploits a poor software design in PowerDVD, the free DVD player software that is loaded on many PCs. It allows the hacker to exploit a bug […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yes, that is basically the summary of a Network World Article on the subject. In a high end car there are hundreds of computers and millions of lines of software. Gone are the days when you car was a big hunk of machined metal. Now your car is a super computer network on wheels. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The NSA released a 5 page document last week on keeping malware out of your network. 5 pages with links to hundreds of pages of other NSA documents. It would probably take a year just to read and absorb them. Then you have to deal with implementing the suggestions. Some are simple, some are hard. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The National Law Review has a great article on board member’s responsibility in the area of cyber security. One quote from the article: a 2012 Carnegie Mellon poll of how U.S. boards are managing cyber risks found that 71% rarely or never review privacy and security budgets, 80% rarely or never review roles and responsibilities, and nearly […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While this is not exactly an “Internet Of Things” issue, it points out how long it takes to get things fixed and how the tail of a bug can live on forever. In the case of the Internet of things, people rarely patch their refrigerator, so that bug will live on until the refrigerator is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to multiple news reports (like BBC, Forbes, and Computerworld), Sony has been hacked again. This time they were hacked by the GOP (no, not that GOP, the Guardians of Peace). So, here is what Sony’s office looked like yesterday – and your’s might if you get hacked. Employees came into the office yesterday, turned […]
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