A presentation at the Chaos Communication Congress (a large hacker convention in Hamburg, Germany that attracted about 10,000 visitors this year – sort of, kind of, like Defcon here) demonstrated the ability to reproduce fingerprints of a target subject from just photographs. Reports in PC Magazine say that the researcher, Jan Krissler, took photographs of Ursula von […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Der Spiegel wrote an article on efforts by the NSA and GCHQ (their British equivalent) to crack encryption of various sorts. Take the article at what it is worth; it is based on documents that Snowden released, so it is a little bit old. I apologize that this post is pretty long, but there is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SC Magazine is reporting that a flaw signaling System 7, the telephone industry standard for setting up, managing and tearing down phone calls allows anyone to listen in on cell phone calls, read texts and locate a user. Two separate researchers have identified the flaw and are going to demonstrate it at a hackers conference […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While this is not exactly an “Internet Of Things” issue, it points out how long it takes to get things fixed and how the tail of a bug can live on forever. In the case of the Internet of things, people rarely patch their refrigerator, so that bug will live on until the refrigerator is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to Washington Technology, hackers have gone after Keypoint Systems, a contractor for The Office of Personnel Management that does background investigations for security clearances. If anyone has ever had a Department of Defense or other government security clearance, the information that you provide is extremely detailed. For example, for the DoD, the SF-86 form […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Department of Justice appears to be doing its best to kill off the cloud – at least in the U.S. Microsoft has been fighting, for months, a DoJ search warrant to provide emails and address book information for a customer who’s data is stored in an Irish data center. Microsoft has been fighting this […]
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