Here is what the connected world looks like and why car makers want 5G. It starts with hundreds of sensors, at least. But the data it collects? That data does not belong to you and the owner’s manual doesn’t say anything about it (which is legal in every state besides California). So what would you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The President is right that cellular security is a problem, but not for the reason that he thinks – although that is a problem too. Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have discovered a way to compromise 4G cellular security – the cell service that almost all of us use now. It allows them to impersonate the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US Gov Warns of Ransomware Attacks on Pipeline Operations DHS’s CISA issued an alert this week to all U.S. critical infrastructure that a U.S. natural gas compressor station suffered a ransomware attack. While they claim that the attackers did not get control of the gas compression hardware, they did come damn close. The ransomware took […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I was interviewed by the local affiliate of a national TV network earlier today about a hack where a young lady got her bank account emptied out in a matter of seconds after she provided a caller a single 6 digit number. Hopefully this lady will eventually get her money back, but not without a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Note: If you didn’t know that I am against crypto backdoors before, let me just tell you up front, because that fact will be clear by the end. The world works in the most mysterious ways. The FBI has been trying to get phone makers (Apple especially) to install crypto backdoors into iPhones for them […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Say 4 Chinese Hackers Took Down Equifax The Department of Justice indicted 4 members of the Chinese People Liberation Army, saying that they were responsible for detecting the fact that Equifax did not patch their some of their servers and thus were easily hackable. This, of course, means that the hack did not require […]
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