I just wouldn’t buy their computers. I wrote the other day about the problem Lenovo is having. They contracted with a company called Superfish and installed some crapware on your computer (if you bought a Lenovo consumer grade computer) that shoved ads at you. That wouldn’t be that much of a problem – everyone from […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Network World wrote about an interesting attack that is – at least in this case – very simple to fix. First, what is Pharming. When you go to your browser and type in www. foo.com, you are trusting the browser to actually send you to foo.com. What if it really sent you to badfoo.com? Badfoo.com […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Reuters is reporting that the Chinese government has removed a number of Western technology vendors products from the approved list. Whether this is due to Western surveillance or just due to their desire to support local companies is not clear – they are not saying. What they are saying is that Chinese companies “offer more […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I wrote a couple of days ago that The Intercept reported that the SIM and banking card maker Gemalto was hacked by GCHQ and NSA. Well, now, after just a couple of days, Gemalto says not to worry, everything is cool. We looked at our logs and while GCHQ might have gotten into our […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I have reported before, more law enforcement agencies are using cell phone interceptors to obtain evidence of crimes. This is not particularly surprising given how important cell phones are in our lives – they are likely just as important in the lives of bad guys. What is interesting is the secrecy surrounding them. In […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lenovo is getting more than it’s share of attention these days. Microsoft has released an update to it’s free Windows Defender anti-malware software that classifies Lenovo’s Superfish as the malicious software that it is, removes the certificate from the Windows certificate store (which is the hard part, so yeah, Microsoft – and I don’t say […]
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