This weekend, I had a pretty bad lightning strike hit my house. The kind of where you see spark hitt ...(more)...

Location-based encryption -- a system by which only a recipient in a specific location can decrypt the message -- fails because location can be spoofed. Now a group of researchers has solved the problem in a quantum cryptography setting: The research group has recently shown that if one sends quantum bits -- the quantum equivalent of a bit -- instead...

Seems there are a lot of them. They do it for marketing purposes. Really, they seem to do it because the code base they use does it automatically or just because they can. (Initial reports that an Android wallpaper app was malicious seems to have been an overstatement; they're just incompetent: inadvertently collecting more data than necessary.) Meanwhile, there's now...

There are many companies that are using windows kiosk to provide people an alternate way to provide ...(more)...

As announced on Friday, Microsoft released an out-of-band bulletin to address the recent Sho ...(more)...

David Ropeik is a writer and consultant who specializes in risk perception and communication. His book, How Risky Is It, Really?: Why Our Fears Don't Always Match the Facts, is a solid introduction to the biology, psychology, and sociology of risk. If you're well-read on the topic already, you won't find much you didn't already know. But if this is...

Guess what: it is possible!. Judy Novak posted an excellent article demonstrating it ...(more)...

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Selling fear: The Vivos network, which offers partial ownerships similar to a timeshare in underground shelter communities, is one of several ventures touting escape from a surface-level calamity. Radius Engineering in Terrell, Texas, has built underground shelters for more than three decades, and business has never been better, says Walton McCarthy, company president. The company sells fiberglass shelters that can...

Microsoft is planning to release an out of band patch addressing the Shortcut vulnerabil ...(more)...

Hacking ATMs to spit out money, demonstrated at the Black Hat conference: The two systems he hacked on stage were made by Triton and Tranax. The Tranax hack was conducted using an authentication bypass vulnerability that Jack found in the system's remote monitoring feature, which can be accessed over the Internet or dial-up, depending on how the owner configured the...

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Wireshark released an update to fix multiple vulnerabilities in version 1.2 ...(more)...

httpry is a tool specialized for the analysis of web traffic. The tool itself can be used to capture ...(more)...

Fellow handler Kevin points us to new developments on this case, announced here ==www.fbi ...(more)...

New versions of Snort (Beta and Production)are both out. Release notes are here == http:// ...(more)...

Paul wrote in to tell us about the new version of NoScript just out ==http://noscript.net/ ...(more)...

"Who controls the off switch?" by Ross Anderson and Shailendra Fuloria. Abstract: We're about to acquire a significant new cybervulnerability. The world's energy utilities are starting to install hundreds of millions of 'smart meters' which contain a remote off switch. Its main purpose is to ensure that customers who default on their payments can be switched remotely to a prepay...

This year's data breach report continues this valuable narrative. This years report is based o ...(more)...

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