Day: September 23, 2017

Closed source corporate DRM for money grabbers is forced onto open source web with flimsiest of excuses

Posted on by Robin Edgar

The trouble with DRM is that it’s sort of ineffective. It tends to make things inconvenient for people who legitimately bought a song or movie while failing to stop piracy. Some rights holders, like Ubisoft, have come around to the idea that DRM is counterproductive. Steve Jobs famously wrote about the inanity of DRM in Read more about Closed source corporate DRM for money grabbers is forced onto open source web with flimsiest of excuses[…]

SVR Tracking leaks info for hundreds of thousands of vehicles. Turns out they have been tracking you even when your car wasn’t stolen.

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Researchers discovered a misconfigured Amazon AWS S3 bucket that was left publically available. The breach has exposed information about their customers and re-seller network and also the physical device that is attached to the cars. The repository contained over a half of a million records with logins / passwords, emails, VIN (vehicle identification number), IMEI Read more about SVR Tracking leaks info for hundreds of thousands of vehicles. Turns out they have been tracking you even when your car wasn’t stolen.[…]

Equifax fooled again! Blundering credit biz directs hack attack victims to parody site

Posted on by Robin Edgar

When news of the hack was published on September 7, over a month after its scale had been discovered, Equifax set up a website for worried customers to check if they had been affected – equifaxsecurity2017.com – rather than setting it up on the equifax.com domain. As a bit of fun security researcher Nick Sweeting Read more about Equifax fooled again! Blundering credit biz directs hack attack victims to parody site[…]

Ccleaner infection: what happened? Turns out it was targeting companies & had been running for longer than thought

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Ccleaner v5.33, software that allows you to clean up the cruft that comes with use and with newly installed machines, was infected with Floxif malware which installed itself on peoples machines together with the ccleaner. Floxif is a malware downloader that gathers information about infected systems and sends it back to its Command & Control Read more about Ccleaner infection: what happened? Turns out it was targeting companies & had been running for longer than thought[…]