Industrial Control Systems (ICS) run everything from waste water to nuclear power. Unfortunately, they are on pretty shaky ground. During the cold war, Ronald Reagan’s CIA convinced the Russians to use American control software to manage a gas pipeline in Siberia. Unfortunately for the Russians, the CIA placed a few time bombs in the software […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In case you were wondering, Siri is not being faithful. Apple, Microsoft and other tech companies are sharing your voice with third parties. But before you go ballistic, they are not selling the data. Third parties such as Walk N’ Talk get your speech from these companies so that they can validate the quality of the speech […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: For those of you who are Mac users and laughing at the poor Windows users, this affects you too. The Rootpipe malware silently escalated its privileges to your maximum privileges to launch an attack on your system. Apple just recently fixed this, but ONLY FOR THE CURRENT VERSION OF OSx – apparently, it was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China Announced that recently (see post) that they were going to stop buying western tech, much to the dismay of companies like Cisco that sells $2 Bil a year in China. Whether this is a move to counter the NSA or just a way to increase the sales of Chinese made tech is unclear. Now the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Too many attacks to write about individually, so I am just going to write a short blurb on each with a link. Oh, My! British Airways – hackers accessed “tens of thousands” of frequent flyer accounts forcing BA to lock down the system, denying users access to the system and requesting that they change their […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired reported on the process that the U.S. Federal Government, and more specifically, the Intelligence Community, uses to decide when to keep bugs secret and use them against systems they want to attack and when to reveal them to the vendors to fix. The bugs, known as zero days or O Days, are ones that […]
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