Researchers Hack Apple Successfully Between July and October, good-guy hackers worked on a side project to hack Apple. The results were impressive – if you are not Apple. 55 vulnerabilities found, 11 critical and 29 high. Apple paid the team a bug bounty of $288,000. The compromise would have exposed a lot of Apple’s internal […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have been ranting about Software Bills of Material or SBoM for a while. This week I have two examples of why this is important – even critical. The first story is about a TCP/IP network stack and the vulnerability is called Amnesia:33. It impacts four open source libraries – uIP, FNET, picoTCP and Nut/Net. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Israeli insurance company Shirbit was hit by a ransomware attack last week. The hackers demanded 50 Bitcoin within 24 hours. 50 Bitcoin is about a million dollars. When they didn’t do that, the hackers started leaking the company’s data and doubled the ransomware demand to 100 Bitcoin or about two million dollars. They said that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well sort of. China has joined the club of quantum computing capable countries and companies. Google and IBM were among the first members of that club and while we know that those two companies are evil (just kidding), we can assume that China has far more evil intentions in mind. Researchers from the University of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]France Says it is Going Ahead with Digital Tax France has been complaining that U.S. companies (mostly) have not been paying their fair share of French taxes since they are not selling widgets that delivered in France, so they came up with this digital tax, a 3% tax on digital services delivered in France. They […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Amazon added a new feature, very quietly (I wonder why – not) last year to some Ring products and some Echo products. Amazon Sidewalk takes some of your Internet bandwidth (a small amount) and lets your Ring/Echo enabled neighbors use it in case their Internet goes down (and vice versa). What could possibly go wrong. […]
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