In an about face, after Art House Convergence posted a letter to Sony expressing their desire to show the picture, Sony is allowing theatres, mostly Indies, to screen the movie The Interview on Christmas day. The best guess is that the number of theatres that will offer it is around 200-300. In addition, Sony is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While this is not exactly an “Internet Of Things” issue, it points out how long it takes to get things fixed and how the tail of a bug can live on forever. In the case of the Internet of things, people rarely patch their refrigerator, so that bug will live on until the refrigerator is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The U.S. CERT, part of the Department of Homeland Security, has released an alert describing the malware that took Sony apart pretty effectively. Without going into a lot of detail, here is the high level overview: The malware takes advantage of Windows SMB (server message block) protocols that are common to all versions of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to Washington Technology, hackers have gone after Keypoint Systems, a contractor for The Office of Personnel Management that does background investigations for security clearances. If anyone has ever had a Department of Defense or other government security clearance, the information that you provide is extremely detailed. For example, for the DoD, the SF-86 form […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Minnesota judge has ruled that Target was negligent in the 2013 hack on their point of sale system according to infosecurity-magazine. Now while this is far from the last word on this issue and it will likely be appealed after the trials, it is important. For a judge to say that Target WAS NEGLIGENT […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: Brian Krebs, the security blogger that has broken a lot of breach stories was one of the journalists that received a letter from David Boies firm. Today he writes about it and other than the comment about hell freezing over first, he suggests, for the most part, Sony does not have much of a […]
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