The US Department of Homeland Security through the Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) at Carnegie Mellon issued an alert to owners of a number of Linksys routers to patch those routers ASAP. The alert referenced two vulnerabilities – the first one allowed anyone on the internet to read or modify sensitive information on the router; […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]An article in American Banker talks about the fight that all the banks are fighting right now. JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Says the bank plans to double its $250 million annual computer security budget within the next five years. I think Chase understands the problem; Dimon said “It’s about firewall protection, it’s about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sometimes not using best practices gets us. Other times it is fatal. Check out this article about an admin who had his (or her) entire universe fall down around his/her ankles. The article shows how, in this case, not following best practices was more than a little inconvenient. The admin was reading his email, apparently […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Do you think about the permissions that an app asks for? A recent ITWorld article delves into the subject and while the article was testing Android apps, the issue is a concern, although a somewhat lesser concern, for Windows and iOS apps as well. The issue at hand is that apps ask for certain permissions […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]With the Snapchat and Dropbox breaches this week, the attack surface just got raised a notch. In case you are not familiar with these two breaches, I will describe them at a high level what happened. With Snapchat, users assume that their pictures will disappear quickly on the other end after they are opened. However, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Forbes and other media outlets are reporting that we may be seeing the next version of the celebrity nude picture breach (called the fappening) that leaked nude pictures of famous celebs such as Jennifer Lawrence and many others. This breach, nicknamed THE SNAPPENING, apparently came from a third party SnapChat helper app and website which […]
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