Hackers have compromised more than 50,000 Chromecast devices, Google Home smart speakers and Smart TVs using Chromecast using a five year old bug that Google knows about but chose not to fix. The attack puts a warning on the TV that the Chromecast is attached to saying it was hacked. This obviously is being done […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FCC to Investigate Centurylink In an example of “can you believe this”, Ajit Pai, who earlier this year said that the FCC can’t regulate Internet providers wants to investigate why Internet provider Centurylink had an outage today that affected 911 call centers across the country. Centurylink, who told people earlier today that if they had […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Merry Christmas! The hackers, of course, do not take Christmas off and are working hard to ruin yours. Today’s story is about a very active spam campaign that is disguised as Amazon order confirmations. The first stage of the campaign looks something like this with different subject lines: Notice that you have to click on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Patches This Week Microsoft issued an emergency out of band patch for an Internet Explorer zero day bug that affects IE 9, 10 and 11 on Windows 7,8,10 and the related server versions. The bug allows a hacker to remotely execute code by getting a victim to view a web page, HTML document, PDF or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You can get anything on the Internet. One of the relatively recent additions are web sites that you can pay (I presume in Bitcoin) to “stress” a web site that you don’t like. Stress is a euphemism for denial of service attacks which force the target site offline. They have charged 3 men today – […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Patches This Week Adobe’s December patch list fixed 87 separate bugs in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. 39 of these are rated critical. Last week they patched a critical zero day in Flash (Details here). More Spy Cams The other day I reported the the DEA was buying spy camera enclosures to hide inside of street […]
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