Remember when you bought that phone or USB cable at Radio shack and they asked for your name and email address? CBS is reporting that Radio Shack listed that as an asset in their bankruptcy and has put it up for sale. That means your name, address, phone number and purchase information is up for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers at David Ben Gurion University in Israel have demonstrated controlling a toy rocket launcher attached to an air gapped computer by another computer nearby (see article). There are lots of limitations to this attack, but still it shows how a motivated attacker like the NSA or its competitors, can suck data out of a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have to both harass and complement Hilton. Until recently, Hilton was offering Honors members 1,000 points to change their passwords. First the harassment: A security staffer at BancSec figured out that you could hijack any other Honors account by guessing or knowing the account number and making a small change to the site’s HTML. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: KARE11 in Minneapolis is reporting that if you include attorney’s fees and other costs, Target will be on the hook for around $25 million (see article) and that payments could begin as early as April 30th. NPR is reporting that Target has agreed to set up a $10 million fund for victims of last […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Electronic Communications Privacy Act was written 29 years ago. Before Google. Before Facebook. Even before AOL. The rules that ECPA set up were based on how we worked 29 years ago. While there have been many attempts to change ECPA, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2015 (ECPAA), none, so far, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CNet wrote about a man who was arrested at the Halifax (Canada) airport for refusing to hand over the passcode for his cellphone to the Canadian border agents. Even if you are not paranoid, it should make you think about what gadgets you take across the border. Here are some details of this case. He […]
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