Eduardo Díaz got in trouble for a tirade on the mayor’s Facebook page in which he called the local police a class of slackers.
Monthly Archives: August 2015
Chet Chat Podcast 211 – A virus on a *Mac*? Is NOTHING sacred?
Episode 211 of our weekly security podcast – a quarter-hour of news with attitude. Enjoy. Update Tuesday, Firefox’s zero-day, more Android bugginess, a firmware virus for your Mac …and a tax fraudster busted.
FBI catches swatter who said “you can’t catch a hacker”
A Texan teenager has pleaded guilty to one count of threats to kill, after an investigation by the FBI pinpointed him as the source of several hoax bomb threats and “swatting” calls to police in Minnesota, Ohio and Massachusetts.
Adobe and PageFair claim ad blockers will cost business $22 billion in 2015
The rapid growth of people using ad blockers is costly to publishers and advertisers – and the trend looks to only grow worse for website owners as ad blocking comes to mobile devices.
Win against ransomware – with free staff Wi-Fi!
If someone is determined to take online risks while they’re at work – how much better if they aren’t on the business network?
The NSA is funding a ‘safer’ Internet of Things
A university project aims to build a lightweight virtualization architecture that can be used to bake cybersecurity into connected systems from the design phase.
32 hackers and traders charged with $100m in “insider trading” using stolen press releases
According to the charges, even a document stolen just 36 minutes before its official release was enough to make $500k in “insider trades.”
X-rated videos shown on hacked Brazilian bus station screens
All your bus station arrival/departure video screens are belong to us!
Another Android hole: “OCtoRuTA” – One (Java) Class to Rule Them All
Yet another large-scale vulnerability has been revealed in Android. This one lets an otherwise innocent-looking app go rogue, and enjoy privileges normally limited to the trusted parts of Android.
Stingray-like phone spying machine used to blackmail and rig state tenders
A South African official is suspected of forging a document to allow a businessman to illegally/allegedly buy the pricey device.