Car software security

Albert Zenkoff
2012-08-21
Society, car, embedded, manual override, news, risk, security, software, virus

I stumbled across an article on car software viruses. I did not see anything unexpected really. The experts “hope” to get it all fixed before the word gets out and things start getting messy. Which tells us that things are in a pretty bad shape right now. The funny thing is though that the academic ...

NFC, ain’t that funny

Albert Zenkoff
2012-08-10
Technology, invention, mobile, near field communication, NFC, security as afterthought, technology, wireless

When we invented NFC (Near Field Communication) we never intended it for some of the uses that it was put to afterwards. And when we started discussing those unconventional (for us) uses, we immediately pointed out all security problems and proposed methods to protect the NFC devices from various attacks. That was… probably 2004. Do ...

Google on privacy

Albert Zenkoff
2012-08-10
Society, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, Google, news, privacy, Safari

Google has been fined $22.5 million for breaching its privacy commitment and bypassing Apple’s Safari users security settings. As the article in Mercury News comments, citing Consumer Watchdog, “the commission has allowed Google to buy its way out of trouble for an amount that probably is less than the company spends on lunches for its ...

Albert Zenkoff
2012-08-09
Society, hacked, havoc, Identity theft, Mat Honan, user information, wipeout, Wired

There is a very interesting article in Wired by one of its authors, Mat Honan, about how his digital life was taken over and wiped out completely in the space of one evening. Read How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking.

More e-mail addresses stolen

Albert Zenkoff
2012-08-04
Management, Dropbox, e-mail, Email address, leak, user information

According to an article in Digital Trends, Dropbox leaked an unknown number of passwords. The interesting part here is that they claim an attacker had access to an employee’s account where a list of e-mail addresses was found. Dropbox is not making the news for the first time and this time they promise tougher security ...

Car software security