Netflix might be the new Sony. As a result of the Sony breach, 5 full length movies were released on pirate movie web sites. Among the movies released were Annie and Fury, along with three others. Now Netflix is in the hackers’ radar. In addition to the entire new season of Orange is the New […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While I have whined that HTTPS:// is not super secure, it is certainly way more secure then not using HTTPS. Technically known as SSL or more correctly TLS, when you type HTTPS://, it signals the web browser to work with the web site to encrypt all of your information. For the last year or two, Google […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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