Sorry this post is so long, but we are beginning to see more information on how Stingrays work and are used. As I said the other day in my last Stingray post, the cat is kind of out of the bag (see post) and only going to be more so. Well, along those lines, Wired […]
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Network World wrote about an interesting attack that is – at least in this case – very simple to fix. First, what is Pharming. When you go to your browser and type in www. foo.com, you are trusting the browser to actually send you to foo.com. What if it really sent you to badfoo.com? Badfoo.com […]
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Representative Will Hurd (R-TX), is the head of the House Information Technology Subcommittee and a former CIA Agent who spent 9 years in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, working on counter terrorism and cyber security before working for the cyber security firm FusionX. He has a somewhat depressing but very accurate view of cyber security. In […]
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Well, maybe not a friend that you want to have, but they will likely get to visit the nation’s Capitol. Verizon has gotten way more press than it would like by inserting super-cookies into it’s customers web traffic to allow folks like the marketing giant Turn to build dossiers on Verizon customers and then sell […]
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IT World wrote a piece on how the cops caught up with the now convicted founder of Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, AKA The Dread Pirate Roberts, the man who ran the dark web marketplace for everything from drugs to murder. The author goes into a lot more detail for those geeks who are interested. Curious […]
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Samsung’s Smart TV voice recognition works just like the voice recognition on your Android or iPhone – with one big difference and CNN is reporting on this today. On all of these devices, the device captures your voice, sends it over the internet and gets the text back the same way. It is not clear […]
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