Man accidentally ‘deletes his entire company’ with one line of bad code from The Independent shows a good example how a small mistake can sometimes cause huge problems. Be careful and have proper backup system. Mr Marsala wrote on a forum for server experts called Server Fault that he was now stuck after having accidentally run →
I work for Netcontrol that makes provides energy network automation solutions for utility communication, distribution automation, substation automation, and control centers. I have done lots of work with their embedded systems and their security. And I write to this blog actively covering many topica from electronics to network security. Now some news from my daily →
http://badlock.org/ Something wrong with Samba. Security problems expected for network storage devices. More details coming in few days. Affects Linux and Windows. Posted from WordPress for Android →
https://www.whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/ Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People. Whatsapp uses now some encrypted message protocol as Signal. Posted from WordPress for Android →
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/feds-break-through-seized-iphone-stand-down-in-legal-battle-with-apple/ End of one legal battle between FBI and Apple that has been on news… Posted from WordPress for Android →
http://m.slashdot.org/story/309115 Some people have real names that fail to work or even break baddly coded computer systems. And some users can select user names that intentionally cause problems… Posted from WordPress for Android →
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/self-driving-cars-and-the-looming-privacy-apocalypse/474600/ Self driving connected cars have potential privacy problems. Are you willing to trade your privacy to get self driving car… Posted from WordPress for Android →
https://securitychecklist.org/ page has a a good security check list for web server. It has good set of security question to check out and gives commands to do the testing for many issues. Posted from WordPress for Android →
It’s been eight months since a pair of security researchers proved beyond any doubt that car hacking is more than an action movie plot device when they remotely killed the transmission of a 2014 Jeep Cherokee (news also noted in this blog). Now the FBI has caught up with that news, and it’s warning Americans →
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/117460/why-arent-stingrays-rendered-ineffective-by-standard-mitm-defenses There’s been a lot of reporting in the past few years about law enforcement agencies using IMSI catchers (also known as Stingrays after a popular brand of them) to intercept cellular communications. Stingrays and other IMSI-catchers violate the cell tower agreements by producing an illegal signal, pretending to be a cell tower.They control the →