This router has a big security hole: Integrity Labs says there is a guest wifi Zero-day exploit, this means that an unportected (without a password) wifi zone can be attacked and the machine can be taken over by the hacker. If you have a Belkin N750 you should consider replacing it ASAP. Believe … Read more
I say “again” because we have had BIOS malware before the famous CIH (Chernobyl) virus from 1998. Sophos recount And the last time the Chernobyl virus activated (April 26th) it caused $250mil dollars of damage in 1999 for South Korea alone. Even Mac’s can have BIOS infections as from Trendmicro Blog post Intel and MITRE … Read more
Palo Alto Networks has found a Mac malware targeting the OS and iOS systems. It is only thte second known malware family. It is the first known malware to automate generation of malicious iOS apps. It is the first to install in-the-wild malware on non-jail-broken iOS devices through enterprise And the following is the most … Read more
Interesting Defcon17 (an attorney gave a talk in this video): This Defcon presentation is all about Constitutional rights on your computers. Also the following webpage at Cnet.com When one thinks someone want to read their laptop content, and then encrypt the data, that may not be enough to prevent the government whose border … Read more
New Proof of Concept for the 2 week old Drupal vulnerability The Drupal Security team says that you should assume every Drupal website not patched on October 15th was infected. A SQL injection attack went around the Internet in an automated fashion. And the details are: In this code we see, that Drupal gives the … Read more
