Security: What is a BlackNurse Attack?
By now everyone is aware of what a DoS or Denial of service attack is. A large number of compromised systems are used to flood a system over TCP/IP protocols. BlackNurse is a new breed of attack that doesn’t require large recourses, in fact, 15mb’s of bandwidth and a laptop can get the job done.
End-To-End encryption & Facebook
In a world where so much of our personal information is moving back and forth across the internet. It’s important to understand people with the right tools can eavesdrop on your conversations. We have to be diligent and hold privacy and security close to the chest on everything we do online. Encryption is key here, even if someone is able to listen to a conversation, it would sound like a foreign language to them and impossible to decipher without the right dictionary.
California bill would require ‘back door’ access to encrypted phones
People could argue even if it saves one life, it’s worth it. If you really think about how much sensitive information we store on our phones, everything from contacts, credit cards to health data. Would we all be safe if that gets out? Were not talking about identity theft, that would be the least of the problems. How about people on witness protection, or celebrities with orders of protection to Financial records of millionaires with contact info of their children.
Time Warner Cable Hacked, Change Your Passwords
If your a Time Warner Cable customer or have a Roadrunner email account with rr.com you will want to head over to their site and change your passwords.
"More than a key logger" Windows 10
Microsoft has the power to track every single word you type or say to its digital assistant.
Last fall, it was reported that Windows 10 Technical Preview may collect voice information as well as typed characters. The assumption here is they were just collecting data for development testing purposes. But, we couldn’t be more wrong.
Headline: Kali Linux 2.0 Released
Offensive Security, one of the leading security researchers, penetration testers and hackers have released the much anticipated Kali Linux 2.0
How was your favorite company rated?
It’s that time of year again The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) has released its annual report card, Showing how our favorite companies stack in relation to government requests of private data.
Update Java the safe way on OSX
We all know we shouldn’t click on links we don’t know, especially with so many phishing scams out there. Flash and Java updates have become one of the biggest forms of this. Many sites will prompt to update from a link.
So be safe and ONLY update Java and flash from your system preferences and never from a random popup asking you to update.
Follow these steps to update Java
Beware: New iOS Brute force device
Within the iPhone repair markets, there seems to be a new tool being used that we all should be aware of. This tool seems to
OSX Zero Day Vulnerabilities
Google's Project Zero vulnerability research program does not just reaching Windows vulnerabilities. They have revealed the existence of three new zero-day vulnerabilities on the Mac platform.
Security Alert: POODLE Attacks SSL3
New Vulnerability found Called POODLE which under the right conditions you may be at risk of someone deciphering your encrypted data over SSL3 and possibly TLS
Califonia embraces Kill switch smartphone bill
Today Califonia embraces kill switch bill. In which all phones sold after July 1st 2015 must have and enabled by default a remote disabling option which can render a stolen device unusable.
StubHub Victim of Cyber Fraud Ring
StubHub, an Ebay Inc online ticket resale company, has reported that over 1000 accounts have been used fraudulently to purchase tickets.
4th Amendment & Online Storage
With so many people storing information within the cloud, we feel everyone should be mindful of a controversial ruling made by a New York judge, James Francis. In which digital information stored overseas are honored by US search warrants
PROJECT ZERO: THE INTERNETS LAST HOPE!
GOOGLE HAS PUBLICLY REVEALED A NEW INITIATIVE CALLED “PROJECT ZERO”, A TEAM OF ELITE HACKERS AND BUG HUNTERS WHOSE SOLE MISSION, TO FIND AND ELIMINATE THE MOST SEVERE SECURITY FLAWS AROUND THE WORLD.
Apple To begin alerting users of government data requests
Tim has been making good in his fight. Kristin Huguet a spokesperson for Apple spokesperson announced “later this month. Apple will update its policies so that in most cases when law enforcement requests personal information about a customer, the customer will receive a notification from Apple. ”
Security: Heartbleed exposed
A bug named "Heartbleed" has recently been discovered and has likely affected many websites on the Internet. Fortunately, an online tool makes it easy for users to quickly check whether a website is secure or not.
Security: 5 Year old Boy hacks Xbox Live
A 5 year old boy finds a vulnerability within the new Xbox One's profile
Headline: Government reached a deal with tech companies
The Justice Department announced the deal Monday with Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc., Facebook Inc. and LinkedIn Corp. Other companies are expected to participate once it's approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Companies wanted to make the disclosures to alleviate public speculation about their cooperation with the government. The government opposed the companies' request, saying it could interfere with national security investigations.
Security: Adobe Hacked 38million accounts compromised
Adobe has confirmed that a recent cyber-attack compromised customer accounts.
38 million active usernames and encrypted passwords have been stolen as well as parts of Photoshops's source code.