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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DentistryIQ, a web site for dental professionals ran a piece last week talking about dentists (and while the article didn’t talk about it, doctors as well) being a target for cyber criminals (see article). If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense. Think about all the non public personal information that a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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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