Short answer: Because anyone is hackable due to being ignorant on what security is (of course, until he is hacked). Long answer: Human ignorance, about everything that might happen and it is not certain to happen. According to Webster.com, the definition of IGNORANCE is: : a lack of knowledge, understanding, or education : the state of being ignorant […]
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One of the larger questions facing the software industry is: How can I trust code that is published on the Internet? Code signing is the process of digitally signing executables and scripts to confirm the software author and guarantee that the code has not been altered or corrupted since it was signed by use of […]
A team of British security consultants (Context) hacked their way into a private Wi-Fi network — using Lifx bulbs as the backdoor. In a typical Lifx setup, one bulb will automatically serve as the “master,” communicating directly with your smartphone and then relaying all info to other “slave” bulbs. Context’s team was able to hack their […]
Many think that what is not visible to an attacker is not going to be attacked. While this might be true for physical security, it doesn’t apply to cyber security. Security experts name this approach “security to obscurity” because it… Read more → from Improve Your Security http://ift.tt/1xXIzju via improve-your-security.org Get the free eBook from […]
Dieser Artikel ist auf Deutsch verfügbar: http://tcadistribution.wordpress.com/2014/07/01/wie-cyberangriffe-auch-ihrem-unternehmen-schaden-konnen/ We’ve learned after the Code Spaces incident that started as a DDOS, continued with hacking and then blackmailing that cyberattacks are not something one should ignore. The long story of CodeSpaces put short was: a hacker started a DDOS on the company’s website and services. Nothing unusual, just […]
A German reader that wants to emigrate to the US expects nothing else than an invitation from the US President Barack Obama to participate to a VISA lottery. Or at least this is what the spammers that send this email think. To make things even more interesting, you also get a gratis […]
I wrote already about spam impersonating various services just to make users click in order to visit a website. Most of the time, it is about online pharmacies. This time, it is Google’s Support impersonated, as if it would contact the user to restore damaged messages. I leave aside the fact the this is technically […]
I wrote before about various tricks that cybercriminals use to attract people to do something (btw, this is called “social engineering”). This time, they make use of the well-known WhatsApp (written like I did and not like in the screenshot below) to redirect users to an online pharmacy website. The […]
If you visit www.truecrypt.org you see this text below. If you install the software, you see it quite a couple of times. The domain www.truecrypt.org is only redirecting now to www.truecrypt.sourceforge.net. There are many articles written on this topic, especially on “WHY?”. WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues This page exists […]
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