UPDATE: This is bill is apparently worse than I thought. The Register says that a petition calling for the bill to be withdrawn has gathered 43,000 signatures in less than 24 hours. Other comments include that the bill is so poorly written that it would outlaw the NSA’s encryption, unless they add a backdoor to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired and other media are reporting the the head of the CIA, John Brennan, had his personal email account hacked. The hacker, a teenager, talked to Wired about how he did it. It points to general weaknesses in commercial online services security that you should understand. It is less of a surprise that Brennan’s commercial, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You probably are well aware, at least if you are tuned in to the Android world, of the family of bugs called Stagefright. Well now there is Stagefright 2.0 and this will be an opportunity for Google and the carriers to prove to us whether they can deal with ongoing security patches or not – […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]T-Mobile and Experian both announced that an Experian database containing credit application data for prospective T-Mobile customers (people who applied to finance a new phone or new phone service) between September 2013 and September 2015 was accessed by hackers. T-Mobile outsources their credit application process to Experian, which is typical, and that is where the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Automobile hacking community is having a bang-up year. In a Wired article today, Andy Greenberg talked about two new car hacking techniques – both completely different from the ones I have talked about before. The first one is to use the Wi-Fi network in the dealer’s waiting room to hack the diagnostic equipment in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Krebs On Security has extensive reporting of an investigation by Verizon conducted starting a few days after the Target breach was announced. Target has refused to confirm or deny the report . One thing to consider. We do not know how Brian (Krebs) got the report, so all we can do is speculate. This report, in […]
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