Security researchers have figured out three different ways to disable Nest Security Cameras (Nest is part of Google). As of a few days ago, Google said they were working on patches and would push them out shortly. But it speaks to the more general problem of wireless security. In the Nest situation, there are three […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Bloomberg published a brief on the issue of border searches that was written for them by the international law firm of Morrison Foerster on the subject of border searches. Given that lawyers wrote the piece, their concern is about protecting attorney-client confidential information at the border, but the subject applies to everyone. According to Customs […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ransomware, as I have said in past talks and blog posts is really nasty stuff. And it was morphing. First came vanilla ransomware. We encrypt your files, you pay the ransom, we give you the key to decrypt it (usually) and most of the time (but not always) the decryption process works as described. There […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A few days ago I wrote about a public-private partnership between the Russian spy folks and Russian hackers that was uncovered when the Feds indicted two hackers and two Russian spies. In that case, the hackers gave the Russians the data that they wanted and kept and used the rest for themselves. Now there are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A group of hackers is threatening to wipe the devices of more than 600 million Apple users on April 7th using hacked Apple account passwords. According to the hackers 220 million of the credentials have been verified to work. Initially, the hackers asked for $75,000 in Bitcoin or Etherium, but they have raised that “request” […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The U.S. and Britain announced new restrictions on carry on electronics this week. While this has been considered many times before, it is now being implemented, but only from a limited number of airports and a limited number of airlines. The U.S. and British lists are different – of course. I will only talk about […]
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