A few short items today. First, Lastpass, one of the two password managers that I like (the other is Keepass) has been hit with three different security bugs in the last couple of weeks. This is due to the fact that Google Project Zero security researcher Tavis Ormandy has put Lastpass in his sights. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Earlier this month the folks at Cisco were sent into a frenzy when Wikileaks disclosed Cisco exploits in their Vault 7 CIA tool data dump. Wikileaks disclosed that the CIA had been hacking Cisco Internet switches for over a year to eavesdrop on users, but didn’t disclose how. Wikileaks and a number of the tech […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Security researchers have figured out three different ways to disable Nest Security Cameras (Nest is part of Google). As of a few days ago, Google said they were working on patches and would push them out shortly. But it speaks to the more general problem of wireless security. In the Nest situation, there are three […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ransomware, as I have said in past talks and blog posts is really nasty stuff. And it was morphing. First came vanilla ransomware. We encrypt your files, you pay the ransom, we give you the key to decrypt it (usually) and most of the time (but not always) the decryption process works as described. There […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A group of hackers is threatening to wipe the devices of more than 600 million Apple users on April 7th using hacked Apple account passwords. According to the hackers 220 million of the credentials have been verified to work. Initially, the hackers asked for $75,000 in Bitcoin or Etherium, but they have raised that “request” […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Today the Department of Justice announced the indictment of 4 in the 2013 Yahoo breach – three years after it happened. Two of the people indicted are members of the Russian FSB. Under Russian law, the FSB is part of the Russian military and responsible for, among other things, counterespionage. The other two indicted are Russian […]
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