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Security News for the Week Ending August 2, 2019

Capital One Breached – 100+ Million Applicants Compromised Among the data compromised are 140,000 US social security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers.  Also in the mix were one million Canadian social security numbers plus names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and incomes. The data included applicants who applied between 2005 and 2019.  Yes, 15 […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending March 22, 2019

If privacy matters in your life, it should matter to the phone your life is on Apple is launching a major ad campaign to run during March Madness with the tagline “If privacy matters in your life, it should matter to the phone your life is on.  Privacy.  That’s iPhone“. Since Apple’s business model is […]

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What is YOUR Level of Paranoia?

A Houston lawyer is suing Apple alleging that Apple’s Facetime bug (still not fixed) that allowed people to eavesdrop even if you do not answer the call, allowed a private deposition to be recorded. If you are among the geek crowd you probably know that the most paranoid person around, Edward Snowden, required reporters to […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending January 25, 2019

Oklahoma Government Data Left Unprotected The Oklahoma Department of Securities left data going back to at least 1999 unprotected online.  Data exposed included state agency passwords and login information, data on FBI investigations, information on thousands of securities brokers and other information.  The state says it was unprotected for “a limited duration”.  They are investigating.  […]

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Apple Didn’t Get It Quite Right – Again

Parental controls are generally a good thing. Except when it blocks the wrong sites and lets the bad sites  through. So what is Apple doing in this case? Sites that are blocked: Scarleteen and O.school, which are sex education sites and Teen Vogue. Sites that are OK: The Daily Stormer, a neo-nazi site that publishes […]

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Security News Bites for Week Ending Sep 21, 2018

New Web Attack Will Crash Your iPhone, iPad or Mac A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your i-device with just 15 lines of code.  The code exploits a weakness in iOS’ web rendering engine WebKit, which Apple mandates all apps and browsers use. Anything that renders HTML on iOS is affected. That […]

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