Two Million Cars Using Wireless Insurance Dongle Vulnerable to Hacking

Wednesday, January 21st, 2015

2015 will be a year more smarter than 2014 with smarter mobile devices, smarter home appliances, and yes Smarter Automobiles. Nowadays, there are a number of automobiles companies offering vehicles that run on a mostly drive-by-wire system, meaning that a majority of the controls are electronically controlled, from instrument cluster ...

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Keysweeper: creepy keystroke logger camouflaged as USB charger

Tuesday, January 13th, 2015

KeySweeper is a stealthy Arduino-based device, camouflaged as a functioning USB wall charger, that wirelessly and passively sniffs, decrypts, logs and reports back all keystrokes from any Microsoft wireless keyboards (which use a proprietary 2.4GHz RF protocol) in the area. Keystrokes are sent back to the KeySweeper operator over the Internet ...

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ISPs Stripping Encryption from Personal Mails

Friday, November 14th, 2014

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an internet freedom watchdog group, is reporting that for the past few months, some ISPs in the US and Thailand have been caught removing encryption from customers’ emails, by stripping a security flag called STARTTLS from the messages. The STARTTLS flag is an essential security and ...

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Badly secured routers leave 79 percent of US home networks at risk of attack

Thursday, November 6th, 2014

As many as four out of five internet-connected households in the US could be at risk of attack through their wireless router. This is among the findings of a study by security specialist Avast which found that more than half of all home routers are poorly protected using default or easily ...

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Public Hotspots Are a Privacy and Security Minefield: Shield Yourself

Monday, May 19th, 2014

An axiom among network security pros is that you should treat public Wi-Fi hotspots like the cyber equivalent of public bathrooms: a convenience we all use, but only with the requisite hygiene. You wouldn’t share personal items like a toothbrush or razor with others at an office, gym or airport ...

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