A few years ago, computer researchers discovered a problem with the VW keyless ignition system. VW sued the researchers rather than fixing the problem and delayed the release of the information about the vulnerability for two years. In VW’s defense, maybe it was difficult to close the vulnerability and it certainly would take time. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]All of the cell phone carriers such as Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile are in the business of selling you stuff. Sometimes stuff you don’t want or need, but still stuff they would like to sell to you. As a result, when decent security gets in the way of them being able to separate you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week a group of hackers called Shadow Brokers claimed to have a group of NSA hacker tools available for sale on the dark web. The tools were supposedly stolen from the Equation Group which has been loosely linked to the NSA. If all of this is true, then the reality is that the NSA […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Jonathan Zdziarski wrote about an implementation challenge for the security conscious among us. While Whatsapp does delete the message when you tell it to, it leaves artifacts behind. Whatsapp and other phone apps use the SQLLite database. SQLLite, likely to reduce wear in your phone’s memory, doesn’t actually delete the message, but rather just marks […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A bug in a software library used in a wide variety of communications products such as cell towers, routers and switches and even the radio chips inside of cell phones was recently announced. The library in questions implements standard known as ASN.1 and was developed by Objective Systems. While we are all used to, for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In March the FBI announced that one of the hackers who broke into a number of celebrities ‘ phones in 2014 pleaded guilty. Ryan Collins, 36, of Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to one felony count of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by illegally accessing a protected computer to obtain information. This month, Illinois resident […]
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