Cybersecurity

Security researchers have successfully exploited the Android-based Stagefright bug and remotely hacked a phone, which may leave millions devices vulnerable to attack. Israeli software research company NorthBit claimed it had “properly” exploited the Android bug that was originally described as the “worst ever discovered”. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2016-03/16/stagefright-android-real-world-hack The exploitation, called Metaphor, is detailed in a research paper →

5 Major Hospital Hacks: Horror Stories from the Cybersecurity Frontlines article tells that real-world war, combatants typically don’t attack hospitals. In the cyber realm, hackers have no such scruples. “We’re attacked about every 7 seconds, 24 hours a day” Many computers and medical devices in hospitals are running ancient operating systems that are full of security holes. →

The good news is that some of today’s most advanced technologies are cheap and easy to find, both online and on the shelves of major chain stores. That’s also the bad news, according to DARPA. Darpa Invites Techies to Turn Off-the-Shelf Products Into Weapons in New ‘Improv’ Challenge article tells that defense agency is nervous →

What ISPs Can See: Clarifying the technical landscape of the broadband privacy debate https://www.teamupturn.com/reports/2016/what-isps-can-see Truly pervasive encryption on the Internet is still a long way off. The fraction of total Internet traffic that’s encrypted is a poor proxy for the privacy interests of a typical user. Even with HTTPS, ISPs can still see the domains →

Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again? The iPhone Crisis reignited a conflict that should have been settled in the 90s. The loser is our national security. https://backchannel.com/why-are-we-fighting-the-crypto-wars-again-b5310a423295#.m4ysbpcv1 Posted from WordPress for Android →

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/40505.html Another story on bad IoT security… Posted from WordPress for Android →

Hackers have figured out how easy it is to take down a hospital article tells that when 18 USB sticks were dropped into a hospital, within 24 hours, at least one of them had been plugged into a nurse’s station, infecting it with malware. Hackers were soon able to get into the hospital’s network and take →

The way you move your mouse is unique, like fingerprints, and can be used by dark forces to track you on supposedly anonymous and secure networks like Tor, according to a Barcelona researcher. Jose Carlos Norte discovered the snooping method in recent weeks: Using Javascript, a hacker could identify a user based on the movements in →

For years, when it came to credit-card security, the United States was the last major holdout in the developed world, continuing to issue cards with magnetic stripes rather than the more-secure microchip EMV cards (EMV stands for the three companies that pioneered the chip: Europay, Mastercard, and Visa). http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/us-determined-to-have-the-least-secure-credit-cards-in-the-world/473199/ Posted from WordPress for Android →

  Now consider this story by the New York Post, which cries out in terror that a master key to the New York City utilities has leaked. The New York Post is crying out in terror that this master key is on the loose, and goes on to publish the full secret of the key, →