For those of you are are Firefox users, I found a tool that allows you to see what parts of your browser need updating. The tool is a web page on Mozilla’s web site. Maybe everyone else knows about it and I have been living in a cave. Maybe there is a similar one […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Underwriters labs, the folks that test most consumer electrical appliances for safety, has set up a division to certify Internet of Things devices – whatever they are. Apparently, most people have heard of the term, but don’t know what that means. An example of it might be your Internet connected refrigerator that texts you when […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: The details are out. The issue is that under certain circumstances, a hacker could get OpenSSL to accept an HTTPS certificate that is fraudulent. This does not affect the major browsers, but rather the second and third tier software that uses SSL behind the scenes. Likely, you don’t even know all the places that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Bitstamp, a European bitcoin exchange, suffered a breach on January 4th of this year. According to a breach report apparently prepared for Bitstamp, the breach was a result of a determined adversary and a very typical but rookie mistake on the part of a Bitstamp administrator. The breach cost Bitstamp 18,997 bitcoins worth a little over […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple released patches to fix a family of security flaws called Masque the other day in iOS release 8.4 . Researchers then came up with a new variant of the flaw that the patch doesn’t fix. Apple had fixed earlier variants of the Masque attack in iOS 8.1.3 , Anyone see a theme here. Unfortunately, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to Veracode, the government isn’t very good at fixing software flaws. In fact, of 7 vertical segments, they rank last. The financial and manufacturing sectors do best at fixing vulnerabilities. Healthcare organizations don’t do well and cloud vendors (SaaS) fail the OWASP top 10 almost 75% of the time. Given this, it is not […]
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