Wired wrote a piece about an attack that some researchers presented at Blackhat that represents an interesting attack that we don’t have a good solution for. Wired says: “For most users that’s really a throw-your-machine-away kind of situation. Most people and organizations don’t have the wherewithal to physically open up their machine and electrically reprogram […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft is just reading Google’s playbook on destroying your privacy, but that does not mean that you have to drink the entire glass of that Kool-Aid. Here are a couple of things that you can do on Windows 10 to dial back the information theft a little bit. First of all, what does Microsoft tell […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you who use Bit Torrent to download pirated movies, this post is for you. Microsoft has turned every Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro user into a Bit Torrent node of sorts, delivering Microsoft updates to their millions of customers. Like other Windows 10 features (WiFi Sense, for example), I am […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to reports, police in 20 countries arrested 70 people in mid-July, saying they were part of a group that traded in all sorts of nifty stuff (if you are a hacker) like hacking tools, zero day exploits, stolen credit cards, and spamming and botnet services. Assuming that there are 800 groups like this and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is the week for car hacks – because it is the week before the hacker conference Defcon. In this case, for about $100, a researcher has created a black box that, while no where as dramatic as the Jeep hack, is still unnerving. The black box is a WiFi hotspot. It intercepts the communications […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Following on from yesterday’s United Airlines post, both Kaspersky and Symantec are reporting about a hacking group that is not interested in stealing credit cards. Instead, they are stealing corporate secrets for financial gain. Whether they are using them for insider trading or selling them to the highest bidder, the group, whom Kaspersky calls Wild […]
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