It is common mythology that Bitcoin users are thieves, hackers and tax cheats. The IRS doesn’t like tax cheats. The IRS is asking a court for a “John Doe” summons asking Coinbase, a Bitcoin exchange, to turn over information on any customers that match a certain criteria. The summons applies as long as the government […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: Apparently Paypal was one of the companies affected by some of these OAuth security holes and they just released a fix (Dec 1,2016) for a bug that would allow hackers to steal OAuth tokens from payment apps of third party developers. Many web sites encourage you to sign on with your social media userid […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: While the ticket kiosks are back online, the hacker is saying that if the Muni doesn’t fix security problems and pay the ransom by Friday that they are going to release the data that they have taken. Passengers entering the San Francisco Muni rail system were greeted by the message “You Hacked” on Friday […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We don’t seem to remember history very well, so, I guess, we are doomed to repeat it. A Chinese company, ADUPS, makes a technology that a number of phone manufacturers buy and use. It allows the manufacturer to update the firmware in a phone or IoT device over the air (meaning, I assume, over the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We have all used web conferencing tools at some time. Some of use use them a lot, but does anyone other than me worry about the security and privacy of these solutions? Examples of these services are Webex and Gotomeeting, but there are dozens of these tools, at least. Brian Krebs wrote a piece a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Madison Square Garden Company (MSG) announced this week that hackers compromised point of sale systems at a number of their properties. The properties include Madison Square Garden, Beacon Theatre and Radio City Music Hall among venues. One more time, it appears that the hack happened with the point of sale system that runs the concession stands […]
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