The National Retail Federation, in testimony before Congress (see article), said that the government should expand protections for debit card users (Federal protections for debit card users are less than for credit card users), pass a national breach notification law and boost prosecution for cyber crimes. The harder question is who is responsible for breaches. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yup, that is all it takes. Eric Evenchick will present at Blackhat Asia a $60, open source, car hacking tool (see article). You have to provide your own USB and OBD2 cables. With Eric’s CANCard and his library of Python based scripts, you can hack around in your car (or maybe someone else’s) and see […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The ACLU put together an interesting web page (see here). By surfing the web, they have put together a map with information – as best they have at the moment – of what states are using Stingrays to track citizens and what states are not. I say citizens and not crooks because a Stingray will collect […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A couple of months ago I wrote about an iPhone bug that allows users to unintentionally install rogue iPhone Apps (see post). Well now Android users are getting hit with a similar attack. Ars technica is reporting that they have found an Android Installer hijacker (see article). Like the iPhone bug, it only works if […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SSL and TLS, the security protocols that protect most of our banking and ecommerce transactions is a complicated beast – more so due to the the many options it offers. ars technica in an article titled “Noose around Internet’s TLS system tightens with two new decryption attacks”, discussed a paper presented at Black Hat Asia that describes […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Max Schrems, whom I have written about before (see post) is continuing his fight against Facebook. He first took his battle to the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) since Facebook Europe is based in Ireland, but the DPC declined to take the case, because, it said, it had no legal requirement to do so (meaning […]
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