Reuters is reporting that the Chinese government has removed a number of Western technology vendors products from the approved list. Whether this is due to Western surveillance or just due to their desire to support local companies is not clear – they are not saying. What they are saying is that Chinese companies “offer more […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I wrote a couple of days ago that The Intercept reported that the SIM and banking card maker Gemalto was hacked by GCHQ and NSA. Well, now, after just a couple of days, Gemalto says not to worry, everything is cool. We looked at our logs and while GCHQ might have gotten into our […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I have reported before, more law enforcement agencies are using cell phone interceptors to obtain evidence of crimes. This is not particularly surprising given how important cell phones are in our lives – they are likely just as important in the lives of bad guys. What is interesting is the secrecy surrounding them. In […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lenovo is getting more than it’s share of attention these days. Microsoft has released an update to it’s free Windows Defender anti-malware software that classifies Lenovo’s Superfish as the malicious software that it is, removes the certificate from the Windows certificate store (which is the hard part, so yeah, Microsoft – and I don’t say […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Risk Based Security released their 2014 data breach report (available here) with some impressive numbers. I am just going to highlight a few; read the report if you would like more details. 3,014 data breach incidents (up 28.5%) 1.1 Billion records breached (up 22.3%) 72.5% of the incidents released less than 10,000 records 55.3% of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I wrote the other day (see post) about malware (called Superfish) that Lenovo intentionally installed on their computers in the name of improving your customer experience. Well, they admit that it was poorly thought out, but only for one of the two reasons I am concerned about. They admit that snooping on your private conversations […]
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