UPDATE August 19, 2015 – As I predicted, there are now web sites which allow you to search the Ashley Madison data. Check this Wired article for links: http://www.wired.com/2015/08/check-loved-one-exposed-ashley-madison-hack/ . The hackers who broke into the Ashley Madison web site last month threatened to make the data that they stole public if Ashley Madison’s parent […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lenovo has stopped installing software which allows them to overwrite system files with their version of those files, even if you wipe the disk. They have released a patch for it and recommend that users install the fixes, especially on laptops, quickly. How they do it is quite amazing. Lenovo has built, into the firmware […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you who use Bit Torrent to download pirated movies, this post is for you. Microsoft has turned every Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro user into a Bit Torrent node of sorts, delivering Microsoft updates to their millions of customers. Like other Windows 10 features (WiFi Sense, for example), I am […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is the week for car hacks – because it is the week before the hacker conference Defcon. In this case, for about $100, a researcher has created a black box that, while no where as dramatic as the Jeep hack, is still unnerving. The black box is a WiFi hotspot. It intercepts the communications […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The media has been reporting the demonstration done by two security researchers and a Wired magazine reporter where they completely controlled a Jeep, including the brakes and accelerator. To quote Wired: I WAS DRIVING 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold. Though I hadn’t touched the dashboard, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As the fallout of the Hacking Team breach (see post) continues, the Mozilla Foundation is taking the bull by the horns. Right now there are at least two Flash zero day vulnerabilities that Adobe has not patched. As people continue to go through the Hacking Team data dump, we may find more. As a result, […]
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