HP’s security folks tested the security features on 10 smartwatches along with their cloud and management infrastructure and the results, while not surprising to me, are disappointing. Smart watches are in their infancy; the compute power is relatively limited and, as is usually the case, features win out over security. The question to ask is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Stagefright is an Android subsystem that processes video in your phone. Stagefright has been around since Android 2.2. That means that the potential to affect around 950 million Android phones exist. The bugs (there are several of them) that researchers have discovered are really nasty because at least one of them does not even require […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There is an interesting article on the World Economic Forum web site (link below) regarding mass data collection and the world wide intelligence community. The article, while leaning in the direction of the intelligence community, does endeavor to point out some of the issues on the privacy side. Very briefly, the intelligence community worldwide is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Earlier this week, I wrote about a hack that two security researchers demonstrated for a Wired reporter. The researchers were able to disable the brakes and the accelerator, along with turning on the radio, wipers and windshield washer, remotely, from miles away. Chrysler’s response was to put an obscure notice on their web site that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Seventh Circuit Appeals Court, normally pro-business, has reversed a lower court ruling and said that the class action lawsuit against Neiman Marcus can go forward. Often, these suits are dismissed saying that plaintiffs haven’t experienced any harm since fraudulent credit card charges have been removed. This decision means that businesses hopes that class action […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Not surprisingly, the fallout from the OPM breach continues. Here are a few new items in the news after OPM Director Archuletta was basically fired. The OPM has changed it’s privacy policy to allow investigators to probe it’s databases. This happened after the discovery of “significant entryways” for hackers in at least 3 more databases. […]
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