Smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi downloads all personal data
International Business Times story The Xiaomi phones are sold in China and the head of global expansion was a Google executive. F-Secure a Finnish co. and their blog: Finances of…
JimmyJohn’s investigating breach with customer credit cards
KrebsonSecurity has the story. There was unauthorized card activity known due to cards that were created by the stolen card data. (this credit card fraud is called “card-present”) The speculation…
Symantec end point protection got Owned
Offensive Security has the information. As Offensive Security was performing a pentest, they noticed that Symantec Endpoint protection had a flaw -one that allows the hacker to escalate security privileges.…
2Q report by IBM X-Force, 23% of websites vulnerable.
CSRF or Cross Site Request forgery is the highest likely method of attack Broken Authentication is second And cross-site scripting(XSS) is third SQL Injection as well as security misconfigurations are…
Apple beats estimates, what is this backdoor in iOS?
today Apple beat estimates: Deadline.com with 35.2 mil iPhones sold threatpost has the info about a “stream of data” on an iPhone It looks like Jonathan Zdziarksi, a forensic scientist…