News Bites For April 14, 2015

April 14, 2015 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

I wrote about an attack on hotel routers a few weeks ago (see post). Today, I heard more details on the attack. ANTlabs InnGate router, used by many hotel chains (see advisory), was configured incorrectly. This configuration error allowed anyone to read or write any file in the router, thereby easily owning that router and […]

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Apple, Legal, Safety

Google Is Acting Like Apple – And NOT To The User’s Benefit

January 14, 2015 mitch tanenbaum

Google is a smart organization. It has watched the stranglehold that Apple has over its users and has decided that it likes it. Just like art imitates life, Google imitates Apple (and then says “who me?”). The issue at point is a bug found in the WebView rendering engine, used in all Android releases prior […]

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