In-brief: In this week’s podcast, Paul talks with Sven Dietrich of The John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York about the release of CIA hacking tools, FBI Director Comey’s talk on encryption and more.
Tag: reports
Merchants of Doh! Cameras, DVRs, NAS Fall Down on Security
In-brief: In just the last week, remotely exploitable security holes cropped up in hundreds of models of IP enabled security cameras and recorders as well as a popular line of network attached storage (NAS) devices. The culprit? Shoddy firmware and lax oversight by vendors. When will it end??
MEH CIA: Agency’s Hacking Tools Targeted Known, Patched Holes
In-brief: Two days after the site Wikileaks dumped thousands of pages of information about covert CIA hacking tool, the security and technology communities have weighed in. Their verdict? Meh.
Spam Operation Laid Open, Exposing Data on 1.4 Billion
In-brief: A security researcher searching the Internet for insecure data archives stumbled upon an information gold mine: 5 Terabytes of unsecured back ups belonging to one of the globe’s biggest and longest running spam e-mail operations.
Robot Problems: Research Reveals Cybersecurity Woes
In-brief: a report by the firm IOActive warns that industrial and home robots may be vulnerable to remote, software based attacks.
