Cybersecurity

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 →

Who Has Your Back? 2015: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests report https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-requests-2015 We live digital lives—from the videos shared on social networks, to location-aware apps on mobile phones, to log-in data for connecting to our email, to our stored documents, to our search history. The personal, the profound, and even the absurd are all →

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 →