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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CSO Magazine is reporting on an experiment conducted by the Ponemon Institute. They sent researchers disguised as temporary employees, with temporary badges, into 43 offices belonging to 7 companies. The management was aware of the plan but the office staffs were not aware. The researchers went into the offices, wandered around, took pictures of computer […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We have known for a long time that the encryption on cell phone calls and text messages was relatively weak, but apparently, cracking that was more work than GCHQ, the British version of the NSA, wanted to do. People have been beating up the NSA for being, well, the NSA. I have said, whether we […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Homeland Security Today and others are reporting that three months after the State Department admitted that hackers had gotten into their unclassified email system, the hackers are still there. (see article) While it is always fun to beat up government bureaucracies, it points out that sometimes getting hackers out is a hard thing to do. […]
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