A new piece of Apple Mac malware was discovered recently but may have been running around the Mac universe for two years. The malware dubbed Fruitfly by Apple, is apparently a pretty simplistic piece of code. It can capture webcam images , screenshots, information about every device on the network and then tries to connect […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Houston, we have a problem! So goes the famous NASA mis-quote (Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert actually said “Houston, we HAD a problem here”. You may recall that the Apollo 13 capsule did limp home after aborting its mission. The “problem” that they had was more like a catastrophe and it was, to most people, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Every year at this time there are new laws and this year is no exception. Illinois, Nebraska and Nevada have added usernames or email to data elements that are considered personal information if that information is combined with other information that would let a hacker access your online account. In other words, a username with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Advertisers and web site owners have always wanted to know who is visiting their web sites and tracking interests across web sites. Early on advertisers used cookies, but then users started blocking cookies or erasing them. Then they moved on to Flash cookies which are very hard to erase. But of course, a lot of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Japanese researchers released a paper talking about the (hypothetical) risk of flashing the peace sign. As we saw a couple of years ago with a German politician, a high definition photo from close enough (a few meters away according to the researchers) , with the right lighting, allowed the researchers to replicate the fingerprint. Apparently, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Israeli company Cellebrite, known for building hardware and software to extract data from most cell phones, was itself hacked. Earlier this week a hacker gave Motherboard 900 gigabytes of data from Cellebrite. We do not know if this is all they have or merely the beginning of a long trickle. Motherboard says that there […]
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