Houston, we have a problem! So goes the famous NASA mis-quote (Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert actually said “Houston, we HAD a problem here”. You may recall that the Apollo 13 capsule did limp home after aborting its mission. The “problem” that they had was more like a catastrophe and it was, to most people, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Japanese researchers released a paper talking about the (hypothetical) risk of flashing the peace sign. As we saw a couple of years ago with a German politician, a high definition photo from close enough (a few meters away according to the researchers) , with the right lighting, allowed the researchers to replicate the fingerprint. Apparently, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]About four months, a security firm named Medsec discovered some flaws in St Jude Medical’s cardiac implantable products. The accepted way to deal with this is to privately let the manufacturer know what you found, let them fix it and then release your research. In this case, Medsec had been told that St. Jude would […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Politics being what it is, the FBI and DNC, a year after the attack on the DNC, are fighting over who did what and when. Since everyone in Washington has to cover their rear ends, this is not a particular surprise, especially after Comey’s “We are investigating Clinton again …. oh, false alarm” letters to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers are creative if nothing else. A hacker going by the name of Harak1r1 is going around looking for unprotected Mongo databases. Mongo is a database used on many websites. The only problem is that on some of them, people do not protect the administrator account. What the hacker is doing is this. First the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Just after midnight on August 11th, Jered Kenna in Medellin, Columbia was notified that two of his email accounts had their passwords reset. He tried regaining control of the accounts by getting the services to send him a text, which he never received. When he called his phone company (T-Mobile), they said that he didn’t […]
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