Haxx.ml has the story¹ This is one of those moments where the latest version of the program(Jetspeed 2.3.0) is hackable using a SQL injection method from CVE-2016-0710. It behooves us to review CVE-2016-0710: “The Jetspeed User Manager service, part of the Jetspeed Administrative Portlets, is vulnerable to SQL injection. When performing a search in these tools, … Read more
As KrebsonSecurity noticed yesterday with his post¹. Credit Unions are seeing fraudulent transaction on Debit cards that were used at Wendy’s I created this image from Engadget’s² image of a drive-thru sign at a Wendy’s So the next time you drive thru Wendy’s (until they fix it) imagine a hacker actually also receiving your debit card … Read more
Deutsche Welle¹ has the story (a German language news site that also has English sections) German hospital Lukas Hospital (Krankenhaus) GmbH is a type of corporation in Germany. The hospital apparently downloaded malware in an email and then infected the X-ray system among others. The X-ray system is now unable to work affecting patient … Read more
Here is Neil deGrasse Tyson vs. Ray Kurzweil on “The Singularity” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvtHut9Zp8k The conversation starts with John von Neumann (with Ray claiming von Neumann the creator of computer) The idea is John von Neumann¹ created the first computers (great Mathematician who helped build the atomic bomb with this task of building a computer since the calculations necessary … Read more
2016 Has Arrived – the First of Many Shoes to be dropped unfortunately. My apologies for the sensationalist story… Wired magazine Story¹ Los Angeles Hospital Presbytarian Medical center computers have not worked for a week – being ransomed for $3.4Mil in bitcoin and “only then” will get back in business. Even now the CEO Allen … Read more
