BMW announced that it had fixed a bug that would have allowed hackers to compromise it’s ConnectedDrive car automation system. The bug affected over two million BMWs, Minis and Rolls Royces, according to Mashable. Apparently, the communications between BMW’s servers and your car were not even encrypted, so the solution was to use HTTPS to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have been meaning to write about this for a week now, but a conversation I had last night with a security-geek friend (thanks, Tim!) allows me to combine two posts. Happy Friday! First, the subject line. Lizard Squad, the group that claimed responsibility for shutting down the Microsoft xBox and Sony Playstation networks on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the latest bit of news dribbling out of Sony Pictures, Reuters is reporting that Sony has requested an extension of the required financial filings from mid February to the end of March. Sony is saying that their financial and accounting applications will not be working until early February. For those of you keeping track, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: As expected, Adobe did release a second patch emergency patch for this bug and expects it to be available for download this week. Adobe has said that there are reports of vulnerability being “actively exploited”. You can check what version of Flash you are running by going to this link at Adobe.com . Adobe […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The New York Times is reporting that the NSA has been inside North Korea’s network since 2010 and that is how they knew that the Sony attack came from North Korea. Hopefully, this is one NSA spying activity that no one in the U.S. is going to complain about. The Times article said that North […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]How many times have you seen computer experts telling you that they have the secret solution to making your computers secure? I don’t know how many I have seen, but it is a lot. There is, no doubt, some truth in each of these lists, but for everyone, the solution is a little different. The […]
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