When I read about the Mackeeper breach last week I didn’t quite grasp the implication of it. Now I do and it is much bigger than I understood. For those who have not seen the news, Mackeeper, which is an Apple Mac anti malware/clean up your machine kind of product that some people like and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: According to the Wired article below, the remote access issue was caused by a hard coded master password. Of course, now that people know there is one, they can look at the code and find it, which means that if you have not patched your Juniper firewalls, you are at a high risk for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the question of how cypto backdoors would work is unknown since there are no actual proposals on the table at this time, I am concerned that it will turn into a disaster. Partly this is because Congress does not understand technology. Out of 500 plus Congress critters, there are 5 that have a computer […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As we have seen all too often, the source of big cyber attacks is a small or medium enterprise (SME). The SME is a ripe target for hackers because those businesses do not have cyber security experts on staff. Many SME owners, not knowing what to do don’t do anything. Target, for example, was one. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Veracode, a company who assists developers to improve software code quality analyzes the data of their customer’s testing and releases summary data to help the industry understand code quality issues. Below are a few scary results from their most recent report. 87% of Android apps and 80% of iOS apps have cryptographic issues. This means […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week Adobe release a set of patches fixing 78 vulnerabilities. At the same time, Microsoft released patches for 71 vulnerabilities – three-quarters of which Microsoft rated as CRITICAL. Two vendors, one month, 149 bugs patched. Think about the amount of software that is out there. If every other product is as reliable as Microsoft’s […]
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