Samsung ramps up its B2B partner and developer efforts

Chances are you mostly think of Samsung as a consumer-focused electronics company, but it actually has a very sizable B2B business as well, which serves over 15,000 large enterprises and hundreds of thousands of SMB entrepreneurs via its partners. At its developer conference this week, it’s putting the spotlight squarely on this side of its […] Continue reading Samsung ramps up its B2B partner and developer efforts

‘Critical’ flaw in apps for Sennheiser headphones allows certificate access

Two applications developed by German electronics company Sennheiser contain vulnerabilities that could make it possible for hackers to forge digital certificates and impersonate legitimate websites. Sennheiser’s two apps, HeadSetup and HeadSetup Pro, installed certificates on users’ computers then failed to secure the key, according to a vulnerability report published Wednesday by the German security consulting firm Secorvo. The mistake means that hackers could decrypt the key and use the certificate, a means of digital authentication, to monitor victims’ traffic and launch main-in-the-middle attacks. “We found — caused by a critical implementation flaw — the secret signing key of one of the clandestine planted root certificates can be easily obtained by an attacker,” the Secorvo report states. “This allows him or her to sign up and issue technically trustworthy certificates. Users affected by this implementation bug can become victim of such a certificate forgery, allowing an attacker to send e.g. trustworthy signed […]

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Hackers Steal Customers’ Credit Cards From Newegg Electronics Retailer

The notorious hacking group behind the Ticketmaster and British Airways data breaches has now victimized popular computer hardware and consumer electronics retailer Newegg.

Magecart hacking group managed to infiltrate the Newegg website and steal the … Continue reading Hackers Steal Customers’ Credit Cards From Newegg Electronics Retailer

Dixons Carphone Data Breach Affects 10 Million Customers

Dixons Carphone’s 2017 data breach was worse than initially anticipated.

In an announcement on Monday, Dixons Carphone, one of the largest consumer electronics and telecommunication retailers in Europe, admitted that the breach affected around 10 mill… Continue reading Dixons Carphone Data Breach Affects 10 Million Customers

34C3: North Korea’s Consumer Technology

[Will Scott] and [Gabe Edwards] shed some light on the current state of consumer computing technology at 34C3 in their talk DPRK Consumer Technology. The pair has also created a website to act as a clearinghouse for this information — including smartphone OS images up at koreaComputerCenter.org.

Not a whole lot is known about what technology North Korean citizens have available to them. We have seen Red Star OS, the Mac-like Linux based operating system used on PC based desktops. But what about other systems like smartphones?

[Will] and [Gabe] found that cell phones in North Korea are typically manufactured …read more

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