Signalling System 7 or SS7 has long known to be vulnerable to hackers. SS7 is the control system protocol that telephone companies use to route and transfer calls between companies and, in the cellular world, between towers. Since SS7 was designed in the early 1980s, no one was terribly concerned about security. Hackers – or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the turnabout is fair play department, Microsoft is now suing the Department of Justice. Turns out that over the last 18 months, Microsoft has received about 5 orders a day for customer information which do not allow Microsoft to tell the customer that the government filched their data. For the majority of them, that order […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have never been a fan of shortened URLs like http://bity.ly/1cxcx66u , but mostly for security reasons. If I click on that link, I have no idea what web site I am going to – whether it is malware laced or contains inappropriate content. Now there is another reason – privacy. Researchers at Cornell Tech, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: This is bill is apparently worse than I thought. The Register says that a petition calling for the bill to be withdrawn has gathered 43,000 signatures in less than 24 hours. Other comments include that the bill is so poorly written that it would outlaw the NSA’s encryption, unless they add a backdoor to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One of the downsides of collecting data is that you may have to disclose it. In Uber’s case, it collects a lot of data, so regulators and law enforcement can ask for that data. In this case, even though the release of all this data is not a breach, it still could be a cause […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Skycure, a mobile device protection vendor released its new mobile threat intelligence report and the data is not pretty. One thing the report says is that 40% of the mobile devices are at risk of a network attack over a four month window. Out of 51 million device scans in 2015, Skycure found almost 13,000 […]
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