Michael Lynton, Sony Pictures CEO, gave the AP the most extensive interview since the attack. Among other things, Lynton said that the hackers “They came in the house, stole everything, then burned down the house.” He said “They destroyed servers, computers, wiped them clean of all the data and took all the data.” More importantly, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Swiss Bank BCGE was hacked, according to Network World, by a group of hackers who miscalculated a bit. The hacking group, Rex Mundi, has an M.O. of hacking businesses and then demanding a small ransom from the company in exchange for not publishing what they took. In this case, they hacked their way into […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google is a smart organization. It has watched the stranglehold that Apple has over its users and has decided that it likes it. Just like art imitates life, Google imitates Apple (and then says “who me?”). The issue at point is a bug found in the WebView rendering engine, used in all Android releases prior […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: Interesting question: Right now, the government has the benefit of secrecy when they spy on our internet traffic with laws like the U.S. Patriot Act. If they want to be able to decrypt your messages and the app doesn’t have a back door, they would have to come to you and ask for your […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to an article at Cult Of Mac, one of Apple’s suppliers, Quanta, posted Powerpoint documents with instructions on how to log in to a database containing confidential Apple documents on new, yet to be announced products. Apparently, the document contains default credentials, which it says, the business partner should change after they log in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lewitt, Hackman, Shapiro, Marshall and Harlan, a law firm based outside Los Angeles, has an interesting take on software licensing. They don’t say whether they have been representing plaintiffs or defendants in software piracy lawsuits, so I don’t know if there is a bias in their blogging, but it is an interesting point of view. […]
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