Security researchers at the International Conference On Cyber Security And Cyber Law reported that they have found a fatal security hole in a wide variety of SOHO Internet Routers. As is often the case, the researchers discovered this problem accidentally while examining the code of a router for a completely different problem (see the researcher’s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Register is reporting that there are a couple of ways a hacker can take over a PC just by having you insert a Blu-Ray disc. The first method exploits a poor software design in PowerDVD, the free DVD player software that is loaded on many PCs. It allows the hacker to exploit a bug […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group admitted that their credit card system at an unknown number of their hotels was hacked and credit cards compromised AFTER they were outed by Krebs On Security. The upscale hotel chain, where rooms at the New York property start at $850 a night, would be a great target for hackers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I suspected when Apple Pay was released, the hackers did not just give up and say “this is too hard” and all get jobs at Burger King. No, instead they said, what vulnerabilities does Apple Pay have? The first one (at least that we know of) is something called yellow path. The hackers have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I just wouldn’t buy their computers. I wrote the other day about the problem Lenovo is having. They contracted with a company called Superfish and installed some crapware on your computer (if you bought a Lenovo consumer grade computer) that shoved ads at you. That wouldn’t be that much of a problem – everyone from […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Network World wrote about an interesting attack that is – at least in this case – very simple to fix. First, what is Pharming. When you go to your browser and type in www. foo.com, you are trusting the browser to actually send you to foo.com. What if it really sent you to badfoo.com? Badfoo.com […]
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