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Love statistics? Read here what went wrong with the USA presidential election polls
Source: http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/245063/us-election-results-2016-what-went-wrong-with-prediction-models Original question: First it was Brexit, now the US election. Many model predictions were off by a wide margin, and are there lessons to be learned here? As late as 4 pm PST yesterday (n.b. on 08.11), the betting markets were still favoring Hillary 4 to 1. I take it that the […]
Scary to see details of the World’s Biggest Data Breaches
Source: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/ No worries, the chart is very interactive and you can select what you want to see by changing the filter: The problem is that if you select like the screenshot below, you will not see anything anymore. This is scary! Statistics? Actually, the data is scary: it seems that at any […]
Vulnerability analysis: how “HTTPoxy” allows redirect of web applications http-queries
This is a guest post written by Alex Bod, Information Security Researcher and the founder of the Gods Hackers Team. The information about a set of vulnerabilities called HTTPoxy was published on July 18. Using this, attackers can replace the HTTP_PROXY environment variable that allows them to redirect http-queries to the Web applications on their […]
DOS challenges with ITsecurity.co.uk
We were faced on ITSecurity.co.uk with a problem which was at first out of our control: “somebody” is creating, probably without knowing, a denial of service on this website. The consequence was that it was “consuming” the accesses to the database behind this WordPress site. The ISP hosting the website limits the accesses to 50K a day. […]
Member in the “Alliance for Cyber Security”
I am officially in the page of participants of the Alliance for Cyber Security. Click on the image to see the list: Look who is before and after me. I would say that I am in good company, right? 🙂
Chinese Researchers Remotely Hack Tesla Model S (Update)
Security researchers from China-based tech company Tencent have identified a series of vulnerabilities that can be exploited to remotely hack an unmodified Tesla Model S while it’s parked or on the move. The researchers managed to perform various actions. While the vehicle was parked, the experts demonstrated that they could: control the sunroof, the turn […]
Yahoo was hacked in 2014 and lost the credentials of over 500Mil accounts
Oh boy…. they were hacked two years ago and they say it was a “state sponsored attack”. What the hack is that ?! How do you differentiate a hack done by an employee from a state sponsored attack? Let’s take it step by step: Yahoo has started to write to all affected customers this email: https://s.yimg.com/sf/support/en-us-security-notice-content.pdf Below […]
Annoying Internet Ads: An Open Letter To Digital Marketers Everywhere
I gave a nice interview to MICHAEL O’DWYER for IPSwitch and he wrote the following article: Annoying Internet Ads: An Open Letter To Digital Marketers Everywhere “Ads consume bandwidth, especially those delivered as Flash or code. If you’re on a mobile device, with a small screen, the ads will also cover a good portion of the screen, […]
Dropbox was breached in 2012, the data is now online – a quote in SecurityWeek
68 Million Exposed in Old Dropbox Hack By Ionut Arghire on August 31, 2016 In an email response to a SecurityWeek inquiry, IT security expert Sorin Mustaca said that the surprising fact is that the 2012 hack of Dropbox didn’t emerge earlier, along with the other mega-breaches. He also notes that the use of the […]
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