USAToday is reporting that the hacking of the State Department’s email went way farther than has been reporting up until now. The State Department has been fighting to get the hackers out of their unclassified email system for months now, even enlisting the help of private contractors and the NSA – to no avail. CNN […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Industrial Control Systems (ICS) run everything from waste water to nuclear power. Unfortunately, they are on pretty shaky ground. During the cold war, Ronald Reagan’s CIA convinced the Russians to use American control software to manage a gas pipeline in Siberia. Unfortunately for the Russians, the CIA placed a few time bombs in the software […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: For those of you who are Mac users and laughing at the poor Windows users, this affects you too. The Rootpipe malware silently escalated its privileges to your maximum privileges to launch an attack on your system. Apple just recently fixed this, but ONLY FOR THE CURRENT VERSION OF OSx – apparently, it was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Too many attacks to write about individually, so I am just going to write a short blurb on each with a link. Oh, My! British Airways – hackers accessed “tens of thousands” of frequent flyer accounts forcing BA to lock down the system, denying users access to the system and requesting that they change their […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yup, that is all it takes. Eric Evenchick will present at Blackhat Asia a $60, open source, car hacking tool (see article). You have to provide your own USB and OBD2 cables. With Eric’s CANCard and his library of Python based scripts, you can hack around in your car (or maybe someone else’s) and see […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A couple of months ago I wrote about an iPhone bug that allows users to unintentionally install rogue iPhone Apps (see post). Well now Android users are getting hit with a similar attack. Ars technica is reporting that they have found an Android Installer hijacker (see article). Like the iPhone bug, it only works if […]
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