GDPR Version of USA Today Is 500KB Instead of 5.2MB “Because of #GDPR, USA Today decided to run a separate version of their website for EU users, which has all the tracking scripts and ads removed. The site seemed very fast, so I did a performance audit. How fast the internet could be without all the junk! 🙄 5.2MB → 500KB” Source: twitter… Read More
Doctor slammed by med board for selling $5 homeopathic sound waves for Ebola The California medical board is threatening to revoke the license of Dr. William Edwin Gray III for selling homeopathic sound files over the Internet that he claims—without evidence or reason—can cure a variety of ailments, including life-threatening infections such as Ebola, SARS, swine flu, malaria, typhoid, and cholera. That leaves Gray’s fate entirely in the… Read More
The FBI wants you to reboot your router NOW to help destroy a botnet In a public service announcement published Friday and noted by Ars Technica, and a new addition to aUS Department of Justice press release, the FBI explains that it’s hoping that your actions will help the US government destroy a botnet before a Russian hacking group, Sofacy, can harden the malware’s defenses. How would pressing a… Read More
Detecting Lies through Mouse Movements The detection of faked identities is a major problem in security. Current memory-detection techniques cannot be used as they require prior knowledge of the respondent’s true identity. Here, we report a novel technique for detecting faked identities based on the use of unexpected questions that may be used to check the respondent identity without any… Read More
Blocking 500M Users Easier Than Complying with GDPR For some of America’s biggest newspapers and online services, it’s easier to block half a billion people from accessing your product than comply with Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation. With about 500 million people living in the European Union, that’s a hard ban on one-and-a-half times the population of the U.S. A&E Television Networks… Read More
BackSwap malware finds innovative ways to empty bank accounts To steal money from a victim’s account via the internet banking interface, typical banking malware will inject itself or its specialized banking module into the browser’s process address space. For many reasons, this is not an easy task – first of all, as mentioned before, the injection might be intercepted by a third-party security solution.… Read More
Z-Shave Attack Could Impact Over 100 Million IoT Devices The Z-Wave wireless communications protocol used for some IoT/smart devices is vulnerable to a downgrade attack that can allow a malicious party to intercept and tamper with traffic between smart devices. The attack —codenamed Z-Shave— relies on tricking two smart devices that are pairing into thinking one of them does not support the newer S-Wave… Read More
Malware Found in the Firmware of 141 Low-Cost Android Devices News of this group first surfaced after a report in December 2016, when Russian antivirus vendor Dr.Web disclosed that a mysterious threat actor had found a way to penetrate the supply-chain of several mobile carriers, infecting phones with malware. At the time, experts said they found malware in the firmware of at least 26 low-cost… Read More
The Ethereum-blockchain size has exceeded 1TB, and yes, it’s an issue This is not about archival nodes. This is about about staying in sync, after the fact. My Argument: Ethereum’s runaway data directory size is just the tip.My Prediction: It will all work, until it doesn’t.My Suggestion: Transpose. My Argument: Ethereum’s runaway data directory size is just the tip. My Prediction: It will all work, until… Read More
Blockchain vs. Distributed Ledger Technologies Part 2: Governing Dynamics It should be acknowledged that if database coordination and more efficient allocation of code is the desired functionality of a system, then blockchain may not necessarily be the solution for which an organization is looking. Distributed ledger technology (DLT) systems like IBM Fabric or R3 Corda are capable of similar functionalities as blockchain systems, but… Read More