UPDATE: OPM said that 3.6 million of the 4.2 million people affected by the first breach were also in the casualty count of the second breach, so the total should be around 22 million instead of 25 million. However, they added 1.8 million fingerprints to the mix. OPM said that notifications for the second breach […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Underwriters labs, the folks that test most consumer electrical appliances for safety, has set up a division to certify Internet of Things devices – whatever they are. Apparently, most people have heard of the term, but don’t know what that means. An example of it might be your Internet connected refrigerator that texts you when […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In case you haven’t seen the news today, the morning started with United Airlines saying that they experienced a “system-wide computer problem”. United later said that an issue with a network router “degraded network connectivity for various applications, causing this morning’s operational disruption”. The disruption meant that no United flights took off from about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: The details are out. The issue is that under certain circumstances, a hacker could get OpenSSL to accept an HTTPS certificate that is fraudulent. This does not affect the major browsers, but rather the second and third tier software that uses SSL behind the scenes. Likely, you don’t even know all the places that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yesterday, I beat up Apple. Today, I am beating up Google. I am an equal opportunity beater-upper. When you buy an Android phone, it backs your junk to the cloud unless you go out of your way to tell it not to. That way if you lose your phone or buy a new one, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Bitstamp, a European bitcoin exchange, suffered a breach on January 4th of this year. According to a breach report apparently prepared for Bitstamp, the breach was a result of a determined adversary and a very typical but rookie mistake on the part of a Bitstamp administrator. The breach cost Bitstamp 18,997 bitcoins worth a little over […]
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