Schneier on Security

JUNE 21, 2019

In 2017, some Android phones came with a backdoor pre-installed : Criminals in 2017 managed to get an advanced backdoor preinstalled on Android devices before they left the factories of manufacturers, Google researchers confirmed on Thursday. The attackers used the backdoor to surreptitiously download and install modules.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Extending the approach of looking back from 2017 to the larger national economy required the selection of economic sectors best represented by the 169 survey respondents. Thus, the NPV from today's perspective is $8,772,000,000; the B/C ratio is therefore 70.2/1; 1; and a measure (explained in detail in Section 6.1)

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

There are so many reasons why manufacturers connect their products to the Internet, whether it’s industrial machines, medical devices, consumer goods or even cars. Additionally, many auto manufacturers now have the ability to remotely update software to fix vulnerabilities or even upgrade functionality. Co-ordination is key.

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IoT Security Manufacturing Encryption 78

Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

in December 2017. Play store app manipulation The final step of the infection is the injection of a shared library into the Play store app. This shared library allows Gooligan to manipulate the Play store app to download apps and inject review. As this post builds on the. previous one. , but they are pretty bare.

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Encryption Libraries Ransomware Marketing 82

Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

in December 2017. Play store app manipulation The final step of the infection is the injection of a shared library into the Play store app. This shared library allows Gooligan to manipulate the Play store app to download apps and inject review. As this post builds on the. previous one. , but they are pretty bare.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

As I produce this episode, there's a dangerous new vulnerability known informally as Log4Shell, it’s a flaw in an open source Java logging library developed by the Apache Foundation and, in the hands of a malicious actor, could allow for remote code injection. And I wrote an article about it, and, and that was fine. that way.

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