Car makers are limiting the data they are sharing with Apple and Google though car entertainment systems (what the car makers call infotainment). This is not because they value your privacy, but rather because they want to be able to sell your data themselves and if they no longer own it because they gave […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yesterday was Patch Tuesday. Microsoft had 14 bulletins, 5 of which they deemed critical, covering 59 vulnerabilities. Oracle released patches covering 193 vulnerabilities, including 25 Java patches, one of which is already being exploited in the wild. 44 of these vulnerabilities came from third party components. Of the 25 Java vulnerabilities fixed, 23 of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As the fallout of the Hacking Team breach (see post) continues, the Mozilla Foundation is taking the bull by the horns. Right now there are at least two Flash zero day vulnerabilities that Adobe has not patched. As people continue to go through the Hacking Team data dump, we may find more. As a result, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Knowledge Based Authentication – using information that only you know – used to be a very popular method for validating that you are you. Examples of this are when a customer service agent asks you for your birth date, last four of your social or where you were born. The credit bureaus even sell that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Computer hackers likely working for the Syrian regime and Hezbollah have managed to penetrate the computers of Israeli and American activists working with the Syrian opposition, exposing sensitive contacts between the sides. Al-Akhbar, a newspaper serving as Hezbollah’s mouthpiece in Lebanon, published a series of articles over the weekend purporting to divulge correspondence between Mendi […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers at FireEye have uncovered another zero day Flash exploit from within the ruins of the Hacking Team data dump. Adobe says that they will patch it some time this week. Adobe also says that the flaw could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Like the […]
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