Collaborate Disseminate
Based on outrage as to the marketing tactics of Amazon’s RING unit (and the serious flaws discovered weekly with this hardware home security solution), I predict signifant lawfare targeting the company, for both it’s privacy related SNAFUs (and the pr… Continue reading Litany of Bad Behavior At Bezos’ RING
Bad – very bad – news for SMS users, mobile device owners, manufacturers and carriers. h/t
“Dubbed “SimJacker,” the vulnerability resides in a particular piece of software, called the S@T Browser (a dynamic SIM toolkit), embedded on most SIM cards th… Continue reading Researchers: SIMJacker Flaw Permits Device Hijack With SMS
Exploit of the Month or How Using Smartphones In Speakerphone-Mode Descimates Your Privacy: Spearphone (PDF) (by way of the obviously superlative engineering of S. Abhishek Anand, Chen Wang, Jian Liu, Nitesh Saxena and Yingying Chen), the speech priva… Continue reading Spearphone
Friend of the Blog Trey Blalock of Firewall Consultants sent a link in yesterday which amgically trasnprted us to Ramtin Amin’s Web Blog yesterday (in actuality, a Hardware Security blog of considerable reknown)(gracias Trey!). Ramtin’s work is indic… Continue reading Hardware Security, Ramtin Amin’s Take
Is Intel Corporation (Nasdaq:INTC) Down and Out, or Just Down? As always you be the judge…
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Meanwhile, in Spectre (PDF) news, comes word from Ars Technica’s Peter Bright, of a newly discovered attack vector (PDF) (dubbed NetSpectre) using the pernicious speculative-execution in-built microscode from the Minds of Intel Corporation. Now – and … Continue reading NetSpectre, The New Vector
via the Comic Genius of Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech®!
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Charlie Osborne writing for ZDNet’s Zero Day, regales us with the story of the proverbial Bad Beemer, and the discoveries of deep flaws in the German automaker’s usually highly regarded automobiles, by Tencent’s Keen Security Labs. Today’s Must Read.
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via Chris Williams, Editor in Chief of The Register, comes this surprising/yet not surprising fourth security flaw that now joins the Spectre/Meltdown Speculative Execution flaw in modern CPUs. Bad news for all.
“Variant 4 is referred to as a specula… Continue reading Fourth Spectre/Meltdown Hole of Doom Discovered