Security
Roger Ver Predicts $1B Market Cap For Monero
Monero (XMR), a crypto currency which I have been writing about in the recent weeks, has captured the minds, imagination and wallets of many investors. Within the last two weeks Monero has seen a 200% rise in value, mostly due to announcements from darknet websites...
Forget Bitcoin: Why Monero is What Everything Bitcoin Wanted To Be, And More
Monero has been designed from the ground up to maintain privacy, anonymity and fungibility, characteristics that Bitcoin no longer has. Without getting into too many technical details, Monero has innovated in several areas helping the currency maintain its anonymity. The Monero protocol is using one-time ring signatures and stealth addresses to obfuscate details about transactions and the amounts involved.
Guccifer 2.0’s Epic Hack of U.S. Congress: Cell Numbers, E-Mails, Passwords
Guccifer 2.0 is back. Last night he made a new post outlining his latest exploits, the hacking of the U.S. Congress, or most of them, mostly Democrats:
The Feds Lied All Along: Demand Apple Decrypt 12 More iPhones
Last week I covered the story of the FBI asking a federal judge to order Apple to insert a back-door into iOS in order to gain the ability to brute force the password and encryption keys of the San Bernardino shooter, and I concluded that Apple rightly said 'No' to...
Apple Says ‘No’ To FBI, Writes Letter to Customers About Importance of Encryption
by Virgil Vaduva For all the criticism Apple receives from users about its products, design or pricing, there is one thing that Apple should be commended for, namely the focus on security of their users' data and implementation of encryption across all their mobile...
Is Microsoft Shutting Down Windows 10 Privacy Research?
By Virgil Vaduva About a week ago a Windows 10 user going by the name of CheesusCrust published a post in the technology subverse on Voat about his research into how Windows 10 user telemetry choices are being violated by Microsoft, even when the user disabled said...
Why Craig Steven Wright is Not Satoshi Nakamoto
By Virgil Vaduva Bitcoin and technology media is in a feeding frenzy over the revelations from Wired Magazine and Gizmodo about the latest news: Satoshi Nakamoto has been identified! And his name is Craig Steven Wright, an Australian man living in a modest Sidney...
ModPOS Malware: iSight’s Pathetic Effort to Increase Revenues
A few days before the 2015 Black Friday frenzy, a number of security web sites and security bloggers have published and re-published a very well-timed and very scary report issued by iSight Partners, a security firm based out of Dallas, Texas. The report in...
Over a Million PHI Records Dump Off Systema Software
Kate Knibbs from Gizmodo started writing last last night about Systema Software, a small software company hosted in AWS (Amazon Web Services) who's infosec practices led to a pretty large "breach" or exposure and of healthcare records to the curious, general public....
So You Are Thinking About Getting Into Security? Well, Meet The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
If you have the drive and personality to take on the challenges I have discussed here, the security world is for you, but if you are easily annoyed and not willing to jump these major obstacles which you will most certainly encounter in your career, choose another path. It will save you a lot of heartache and long nights.