Wired wrote a piece about an attack that some researchers presented at Blackhat that represents an interesting attack that we don’t have a good solution for. Wired says: “For most users that’s really a throw-your-machine-away kind of situation. Most people and organizations don’t have the wherewithal to physically open up their machine and electrically reprogram […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Stagefright is an Android subsystem that processes video in your phone. Stagefright has been around since Android 2.2. That means that the potential to affect around 950 million Android phones exist. The bugs (there are several of them) that researchers have discovered are really nasty because at least one of them does not even require […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In documents filed in district court today, the FTC said that LifeLock failed to live up to it’s 2010 settlement with the FTC and asked the court to order full redress to all consumers affected. The 2010 settlement stemmed from the FTC complaining that LifeLock used false claims to sell it’s services (remember when their […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Ashley Madison web site, where people go to cheat on their spouses, was hacked last week. This is an interesting situation for a number of reasons. First, a little background. The Ashley Madison web site is owned by Avid Life Media (ALM), which also runs several other web sites – Cougar Life and Established […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I wrote about the other day, service providers look like they are the new target of opportunity for hackers. Until the other day, PNI Digital Media, owned by Staples, ran kiosks in places like CVS, Walmart and Costco, where people could print their digital pictures. The place on their web site has now removed […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Ponemon Institute released a study that compares the views of about 7,000 Board members and 11,000 IT security people and the results show some interesting data. The first question is ” Our board of directors understands the security risks to the organization”. While 70% of the board members agree or strongly agree with that […]
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