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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Reuters is reporting that the Chinese government has removed a number of Western technology vendors products from the approved list. Whether this is due to Western surveillance or just due to their desire to support local companies is not clear – they are not saying. What they are saying is that Chinese companies “offer more […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lenovo is getting more than it’s share of attention these days. Microsoft has released an update to it’s free Windows Defender anti-malware software that classifies Lenovo’s Superfish as the malicious software that it is, removes the certificate from the Windows certificate store (which is the hard part, so yeah, Microsoft – and I don’t say […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Risk Based Security released their 2014 data breach report (available here) with some impressive numbers. I am just going to highlight a few; read the report if you would like more details. 3,014 data breach incidents (up 28.5%) 1.1 Billion records breached (up 22.3%) 72.5% of the incidents released less than 10,000 records 55.3% of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CSO Magazine is reporting on an experiment conducted by the Ponemon Institute. They sent researchers disguised as temporary employees, with temporary badges, into 43 offices belonging to 7 companies. The management was aware of the plan but the office staffs were not aware. The researchers went into the offices, wandered around, took pictures of computer […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We have known for a long time that the encryption on cell phone calls and text messages was relatively weak, but apparently, cracking that was more work than GCHQ, the British version of the NSA, wanted to do. People have been beating up the NSA for being, well, the NSA. I have said, whether we […]
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