Last December Brian Krebs reported that banks said that there was a pattern of credit card fraud centered around the hotels of the Intercontinental Hotel Group, IHG. IHG owns Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza and Intercontinental, among many other brands. At the time, IHG said that it only affected a dozen hotels or so. IHG owns […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The BankBot trojan is managing to keep Google Engineers on their toes. The trojan sits, literally, on top of existing banking apps and captures your user name and password. The initial target was Russian banks. Then it was “improved” to include UK, Austria, Germany and Turkey. Who knows what the next version will target. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When your Internet connected baby monitor fails you probably whine. You may complain to the manufacturer or the store where you bought it. Or, you may just buy a new one. But if that IoT device is your car, well, that could be a bit more complicated. If you buy a used car and the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Bloomberg published a brief on the issue of border searches that was written for them by the international law firm of Morrison Foerster on the subject of border searches. Given that lawyers wrote the piece, their concern is about protecting attorney-client confidential information at the border, but the subject applies to everyone. According to Customs […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The U.S. and Britain announced new restrictions on carry on electronics this week. While this has been considered many times before, it is now being implemented, but only from a limited number of airports and a limited number of airlines. The U.S. and British lists are different – of course. I will only talk about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We think of a virtual machine as a way to isolate one system from another and, in general, it works well. But not always. Pwn2Own is a hacking contest that is part of the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This year researchers who were members of Qihoo 360’s security team figured out a […]
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