A report presented this month at the 2017 Usenix Workshop on Offensive Technologies was pretty offensive – and not in the way they meant in the workshop title. Offensive security is what spies do – go out and attack a system. The report demonstrated a proof of concept attack that would work if someone took […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the ongoing Wikileaks Vault 7 series of leaks, there is a new leak called ExpressLane. According to the documents released by Wikileaks, the CIA offers a partnership with other law enforcement and government agencies in which those partners can share biometric data such as fingerprints with the CIA. The CIA does this by offering […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Internet of Things never fails to amaze me. And make us think outside of the box. As the British publication The Register said, your smart lock may be knackered. Google says that knacker means damage severely and I think they are right. Here is the story. For AirBnB hosts, one security challenge they have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The security firm FireEye has said that they have moderate confidence that a campaign targeting hotels in Europe are the work of the Russian hacking group APT28. One way the attack works is to send a phishing email to hotel staff with an infected Word document with a name related to a hotel reservation form. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers wanted to know if self driving cars could be fooled and how hard it would be. For those of you who don’t want the read the rest of the article, the answer to the first question is yes and the answer to the second question is not very hard. Here are the test signs. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Earlier this year, the Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo, New York was hit with a ransomware attack. ECMC is a level 1 trauma center, teaching hospital and regional center for a variety of medical services – including, unfortunately, ransomware. At 2 A.M. on Palm Sunday computer screens across the medical center flashed “What happened […]
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