The Electronic Communications Privacy Act was written 29 years ago. Before Google. Before Facebook. Even before AOL. The rules that ECPA set up were based on how we worked 29 years ago. While there have been many attempts to change ECPA, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2015 (ECPAA), none, so far, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CNet wrote about a man who was arrested at the Halifax (Canada) airport for refusing to hand over the passcode for his cellphone to the Canadian border agents. Even if you are not paranoid, it should make you think about what gadgets you take across the border. Here are some details of this case. He […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]That is a name that strikes fear into the hear of Facebook. He is an Austrian law student and privacy activist (see here and here). He sued Facebook saying that they violated European privacy laws and that the safe harbor that the EU gave US companies for protecting EU residents information is a sham and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the issues with Apple Pay security problems (see post), I didn’t really understand the scope of what I was writing about. Thanks to Brian Krebs (see his post), I now understand the problem is bigger than I thought. Let’s assume that you are a crook and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Probably many of you saw the 60 Minutes segment on hacking your car (see video here). In the 60 Minutes segment, the researcher/hacker was able to turn on the wipers and washers, blow the horn and disable the brakes in that demonstration. Here is a link to a conversation with the guys who did the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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