While everyone is off beating up Lenovo and Lenovo, in turn, is beating up Komodia, I suggest everyone is missing the real problem. First of all, to make sure that no one is confused, this problem is not limited to Lenovo consumer laptops. Komodia has over a hundred customers developing software, all of which put […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I suspected when Apple Pay was released, the hackers did not just give up and say “this is too hard” and all get jobs at Burger King. No, instead they said, what vulnerabilities does Apple Pay have? The first one (at least that we know of) is something called yellow path. The hackers have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DentistryIQ, a web site for dental professionals ran a piece last week talking about dentists (and while the article didn’t talk about it, doctors as well) being a target for cyber criminals (see article). If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense. Think about all the non public personal information that a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sorry this post is so long, but we are beginning to see more information on how Stingrays work and are used. As I said the other day in my last Stingray post, the cat is kind of out of the bag (see post) and only going to be more so. Well, along those lines, Wired […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I just wouldn’t buy their computers. I wrote the other day about the problem Lenovo is having. They contracted with a company called Superfish and installed some crapware on your computer (if you bought a Lenovo consumer grade computer) that shoved ads at you. That wouldn’t be that much of a problem – everyone from […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Network World wrote about an interesting attack that is – at least in this case – very simple to fix. First, what is Pharming. When you go to your browser and type in www. foo.com, you are trusting the browser to actually send you to foo.com. What if it really sent you to badfoo.com? Badfoo.com […]
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