A newly published article in The Intercept says that the NSA and GCHQ hacked anti virus vendor’s software and networks in order to “neutralize the threat” posed by that software. Based on newly released Edward Snowden documents, GCHQ obtained a warrant in 2008-2009 to have legal permission to monitor web traffic, hack email and reverse engineer […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I guess that is their version of “Houston, we have a problem”. The State Department posted a press release on their web site YESTERDAY that says that they have been having problems issuing visas and passports for two weeks. The State Department usually issues about 50,000 visas a day. Last week, they issued about 1,500 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to Ars Technica, researchers have found several sneaky ways to steal passwords and other sensitive app information on both the iOS and OS X Apple platforms. None of them seem to directly attack the secure element – not that this will make users feel better – and Apple is working with the researchers to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a slightly different version of a breach. A Montefiore Medical Center employee stole information on patients and sold it to her confederates for as little as $3 a record. According to ABC News, during 2012 and 2013, 32 year old Monique Walker printed out thousands of patient’s records including names, socials, birth dates and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A new trend is emerging with hackers. Rather than going after large companies like Target and Home Depot (not that those guys are now safe), hackers are going after the vendors that support small companies. In this case, eCellar, a vendor that provides point of sale software to many California wineries, has told their customers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In February, I wrote about some malware that lives inside the firmware of a disk drive. As a result of where it lives, no anti-malware software can detect it. (Curious note: The firmware of a disk drive can be written to in order to update it, but there is no command to read it back. […]
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