Category: security
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Misleading Headline Popularity Rises 200%
In a post titled “1Password Leaks Your Data” software engineer, Dale Myers, argues that 1Password’s 1PasswordAnywhere feature is very insecure. Here’s how Myers describes the feature: For those of you who don’t know, 1PasswordAnywhere is a feature of 1Password which allows you to access your data without needing their client software. 1Password originally only used the…
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When is it the Wrong Time to Be an Android User
Dan Goodin writing for Ars about newly published vulnerabilities: There’s a new round of Stagefright vulnerabilities that allows attackers to execute malicious code on more than one billion phones running ancient as well as much more recent versions of Google’s Android operating system. Stagefright 2.0, as it’s being dubbed by researchers from security firm Zimperium,…
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Ransomware
For most people reading this, I would suppose that you are already kind of familiar with the de-centralized bullshit currency, Bitcoin. Either you’ve tried it out and made a little bit of money mining it and then were quickly outpaced by minining farms, or you at least know a little bit about it. That is…
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Attack code exploiting Android’s critical Stagefright bugs is now public
Dan Goodin: Attack code that allows hackers to take control of vulnerable Android phones finally went public on Wednesday, as developers at Google, carriers, and handset manufacturers still scrambled to distribute patches to hundreds of millions of end users. The critical flaws, which reside in an Android media library known as libstagefright, give attackers a…
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Probably no Iranian kill-screen coming up
Schneier’s write-up of the Stuxnet worm is good: None of this points to the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran, though. Best I can tell, this rumor was started by Ralph Langner, a security researcher from Germany. He labeled his theory “highly speculative,” and based it primarily on the facts that Iran had an usually…