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Monday, 09 November 2015 16:05
NSA mass data collection to stop in 20 days, but just on paper.
Written by Sean Kalinich
In the post-Snowden era the idea that government agencies are spying on us is no longer the real of Movies/TV or conspiracy theorists. It is fairly well documented that this is happening every day. The question has moved from what…
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Monday, 09 November 2015 11:10
AMD sued for misleading information about Bulldozer cores, does it hold water
Written by Sean Kalinich
It seems that at least one person is rather annoyed at AMD for making claims about certain FX series CPUs running Bulldozer cores. On November 4th the news went out that Tony Dickey had filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf…
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Thursday, 29 October 2015 10:16
CISA passes the Senate, opens the door to more abuse and fails to address security
Written by Sean Kalinich
Cybersecurity is a fairly common buzz word used in Washington these days. It is tossed around to scare people that are ignorant of the way computer systems work so that legislation that is exceptionally pro-corporate friendly and anti-consumer can be…
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Friday, 02 October 2015 15:37
Potential New Exploit found in OpenSSL gets around latest hotfix
Written by Sean Kalinich
It seems that someone may have found a way around at least one of the latest hot fixes for OpenSSL. According to some talk around the darker places on the internet, a rehash of metadata can allow a malicious individual…
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Monday, 28 September 2015 11:30
Possible Breach At Hilton Highlights PoS Risk
Written by Sean Kalinich
Just when you thought it was safe to use your credit card we are hearing rumblings of a breach at Hilton. According to Brian Kerbs and some of our own sources a payment card breach has taken place and the…
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Tuesday, 15 September 2015 11:01
Hackers using unencrypted satellite communication to hide C&C servers
Written by Sean Kalinich
Security and malware research company, Kaspersky has recently released a paper describing what they say is the “ultimate level of anonymity” used by any malicious hacking group. In their report they describe a new attack by the group Ouroboros as…
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Monday, 14 September 2015 10:25
Concerns about an EA Origin Breach Pop Up After a Round of Password Reset Emails Go Out
Written by Sean Kalinich
There are rumblings on the internet that all might not be well with EA after a round of password reset notices appear to have been sent out on Sunday (8-13-2015). EA does not give a specific reason behind the reset…
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Monday, 20 July 2015 06:51
AMD looking to HBM2 for their Artic Islands GPUs
Written by Sean Kalinich
Although much of the press surrounding AMD at the moment is focused on their lackluster earnings for Q2, there is some potentially good news from them. AMD’s dive into the use of High Bandwidth Memory is going to continue with…
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Thursday, 16 July 2015 06:43
The Hacking Team used UEFI Rootkits for Persistent Malware
Written by Sean Kalinich
Last year during DEF CON 22 we saw a demonstration of a UEFI root kit that was extremely worrying. This root kit was installed using a multipart systems to infect the UEFI BIOS in such a way as to grant…
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Tuesday, 14 July 2015 06:36
After multiple 0-days, many call for Flash to go away
Written by Sean Kalinich
After three spate 0-day vulnerabilities are found in your product you can pretty much expect the market to call for you go away. This is the situation that Adobe is in right now. After fighting to their little slice of…
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Monday, 13 July 2015 06:41
New Flaw found in Flash Player, yes another one.
Written by Sean Kalinich
Although it will not come as a surprise, there seems to be yet another bug in Adobe’s flash player that allows for an attacker to potentially take control of a system by forcing a crash of the application. According to…
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Friday, 10 July 2015 06:45
Hacking Team's Spyware source code released to the wild after Hack
Written by Sean Kalinich
The Italian Security firm Hacking Team is now admitting that their spying software is potentially in the hands of bad guys. After a hack that saw roughly 400GB of company information liberated from their systems they have been monitoring what…
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Wednesday, 01 July 2015 11:23
Cross-Site Scripting Flaw found in US ID Protection Company LifeLock's site
Written by Sean Kalinich
Irony is one of those things that is not appreciated by security guys. They do not find humor in it nor do they enjoy it when someone points an ironic situation involving them out. This has to be the case…
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Tuesday, 30 June 2015 10:52
Search results begin on page 2, Google is accused of skewing search results again
Written by Sean Kalinich
When you use a search engine like Yahoo or Google you expect to get relevant results for your efforts. In many cases this does really happen, but often times we enter what we are looking for and find very little…
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Monday, 29 June 2015 10:46
Cisco SSH key bug in virtual security appliances leads to some questions
Written by Sean Kalinich
Cisco has acknowledged (and released patches for) a fairly serious security bug in three of their virtual appliances that, oddly enough, are related to security. The three products in question are the Cisco Web Security Virtual Appliance, the Email Security…
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Monday, 29 June 2015 09:50
Microsoft is determined to make Windows fail, Forces Updates on Windows 10 *** Updated***
Written by Sean Kalinich
Over the course of its development there has been a lot to like about Windows 10. There seems to be a good blend of the traditional Windows desktop with some of the touch-centric features that Microsoft tried to force in…
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