UPDATE: Interesting question: Right now, the government has the benefit of secrecy when they spy on our internet traffic with laws like the U.S. Patriot Act. If they want to be able to decrypt your messages and the app doesn’t have a back door, they would have to come to you and ask for your […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to an article at Cult Of Mac, one of Apple’s suppliers, Quanta, posted Powerpoint documents with instructions on how to log in to a database containing confidential Apple documents on new, yet to be announced products. Apparently, the document contains default credentials, which it says, the business partner should change after they log in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]U.S. Central Command, responsible for the military’s activities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria and a number of other countries in that region was the victim of a hack earlier today. Centcom’s Twitter feed and You Tube channel were compromised and defaced. Twitter quickly disabled the feed but not before some charts and contact information for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CNN is reporting that visitors to HuffPo and several other major sites last week might have caught a virus from malware infected Advertisements. The malware only infected Windows PCs and only those running Internet Explorer 8 (does anyone really use IE any more?). Even though IE11 is the current version of IE, according to CNN, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Former Microsoft Security Advisor Caspar Bowden gave a presentation at 31C3, the hacker conference in Hamburg last month, that gave the conspiracy theorists some more ammunition. An article on his presentation appears here, his slides are here, and a video of the talk is on YouTube here. A quote from the article gives you a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lewitt, Hackman, Shapiro, Marshall and Harlan, a law firm based outside Los Angeles, has an interesting take on software licensing. They don’t say whether they have been representing plaintiffs or defendants in software piracy lawsuits, so I don’t know if there is a bias in their blogging, but it is an interesting point of view. […]
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