Lack of Vendor Cyber Risk Management Hurts over 750 Banks TCM Bank, a company that helps hundreds of small banks issue credit cards had a problem with their third party vendor – the bank’s fourth party vendor risk. The small bank wants to issue credit cards so they hire TCM and TCM hires someone else […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the ongoing saga of IoT security (The score is bad guys: a whole bunch, good guys: not very many), the bad guys continue to win. Researchers analyzed Samsung’s house management hub called SmartThings and found 20 problems. The researchers, part of Cisco, said that the attacks are complex and require the attackers to chain […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As the security research community (and me) has been saying for years, the Internet of Things is really an Internet of insecurity and researchers have now demonstrated that in a noisy way. Researchers at the University of Michigan and Microsoft (yes, really, THAT Microsoft) have published a paper that they are going to present at […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Android community is slowly beginning to understand that they are going to have to step up to the plate and deal with security like Apple has done from the beginning. The challenge is that unlike Apple, where there is one master in control, the Android community is fractured. The only one who has any […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well, that headline should get your attention. The good news is the risk is relatively low. The bad news is that the patch process in the Android ecosystem is very broken. So what is a researcher to do – announce the vulnerability at Blackhat London. And, unfortunately, there is nothing for a user to do […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Samsung’s Smart TV voice recognition works just like the voice recognition on your Android or iPhone – with one big difference and CNN is reporting on this today. On all of these devices, the device captures your voice, sends it over the internet and gets the text back the same way. It is not clear […]
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