We have biometrics, which replaces all that security with a unique aspect of your body, be it a fingerprint, iris scan, or now even the unique sound echo created by your ear. That last one has been developed by NEC Corp in collaboration with Nagaoka University of Technology. They realized that the shape of an →
For an internet advertising company to make money, it can only happen because of the internet user. Yet sometimes it seems almost as if the advertising technology industry is at war with internet users. With more than 50% of savvy internet users in US on ad blockers, and ad blockers being among the most downloaded →
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/03/the-absolute-horror-of-wifi-light-switches/ Example of IoT home automation gone wrong in many ways! Posted from WordPress for Android →
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ Maybe it is good time to do security update by installing newest version. Posted from WordPress for Android →
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/03/pirates-hack-into-shipping-companys-servers-to-identify-booty/ Posted from WordPress for Android →
The discovery of a HTTPS encryption vulnerability, dubbed DROWN, again proves that supporting tired old protocols weakens modern crypto systems. DROWN (aka Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption) is a serious design flaw that affects HTTPS websites and other network services that rely on SSL and TLS – which are core cryptographic protocols for →
https://drownattack.com/#check Posted from WordPress for Android →
CacheBleed is a side-channel attack that exploits information leaks through cache-bank conflicts in Intel processors. By detecting cache-bank conflicts via minute timing variations, we are able to recover information about victim processes running on the same machine. Our attack is able to recover both 2048-bit and 4096-bit RSA secret keys from OpenSSL 1.0.2f running on →
Last week, some 50 cybersecurity experts and observers took on a unique challenge: imagining a future in which bad things have happened in the digital world, and figuring out how to recover from them. The event, designed to help form solutions to problems before they happen, rather than in a panicked reaction afterwards http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/telecom/security/tackling-the-future-of-digital-trustwhile-it-still-exists Posted from WordPress for Android →
California-based secure smartphone manufacturer Turing Robotics Industries announced that it will move manufacturing and its new global headquarter to the Finnish city of Salo. Turing’s decision is rooted in security concerns. “Finland’s Act on the Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communications which safeguards confidentiality and privacy in telecommunications was the main reason behind TRI’s move →