The Justice Department continues to push for the ability to bypass encryption (see here). Leslie Caldwell, one of the assistant AGs said that the DoJ is very concerned that Apple and Google have turned on encryption by default. I guess that must point to the fact that if people have to do something to turn […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The news is reporting that a nanny in Houston said that she heard voices coming from the baby monitor while she was changing her baby’s diaper last week. Apparently, someone was watching them and talking to them over the built in speaker in the baby monitor. That speaker is designed so that the parents, using […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Dark Reading is reporting that the NFL mobile app has a few problems in it – not so much different than NFL officiating. Wandera performed a scan of the app and discovered that after a successful login, the app leaks your credentials in an unencrypted API call. In addition, it leaks your login name and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Redmond Mag is reporting that AV-Test has ranked 28 Anti Virus software products against 153 pieces of zero day (meaning previously unknown) and 12,000+ pieces of known malware. AV-Test, based in Germany, has gotten sideways with Microsoft before. Microsoft has come in ranked very low on their tests several times. Microsoft says that the firm ranks […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the latest bit of news dribbling out of Sony Pictures, Reuters is reporting that Sony has requested an extension of the required financial filings from mid February to the end of March. Sony is saying that their financial and accounting applications will not be working until early February. For those of you keeping track, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The NSA released a 5 page document last week on keeping malware out of your network. 5 pages with links to hundreds of pages of other NSA documents. It would probably take a year just to read and absorb them. Then you have to deal with implementing the suggestions. Some are simple, some are hard. […]
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