Baby You Can Hack My Car

This spring I bought a new Kia Forte that came with a whole lot of electronic goodies including Bluetooth synchronization, voice command, and driver programmable features galore.  And evidently, the potential to be hacked.

This is old news now, but security researchers were able to hack a Jeep Cherokee through the on-board Internet connectivity feature called “UConnect.”

“They were able to change the temperature of the air conditioning, turn on the windshield wipers and blast the wiper fluid to blur the ...

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity

No Secrets, No Privacy, No Security

cybersecurity_436x270Last week we talked about the impossibility of keeping secrets over the long term, the liberation of secret information by groups or individuals who just wanted the secrets exposed.  A close cousin, conceptually, is privacy.  At this point, there is no privacy anymore, not really.

Time was when your life was largely unknown, and privacy was an easy thing to have. But this is ...

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authentication, cybersecurity

No More Secrets

Hacker movies are one of my favorite genres, and have been for a long time.  Go figure.  One of my favorites from the “olden days” is the 1992 movie “Sneakers.”  In this movie Robert Redford and his merry band of cybersecurity testers are tasked with the recovery of a mysterious “black box” which basically can solve for any type of encryption that was in use at that time.  At one point in the movie the blind hacker discovers ...

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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, News and politics, surveillance

Windows 10 Upgrade Went Smoothly

This article is largely reposted from other blog on WyzGuys.com.

This alert was added after the originally article posted – there does seem to be a small group of people have problems with the upgrade, and it seems to be affecting Asus branded computers and computers with solid  state drives or SSD (flash) hard drives.  If you fall in those groups, you might want to wait a bit.

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Windows 10

EMV Cards Due October – It’s About Time!

EMVcardEMV or “chip and PIN” cards have a much higher level of security built right into the card, and have been in common use in Europe for over a decade.  For some reason (too expensive to implement?  Really?) the United States has continued to use the horribly insecure magnetic stripe credit card, which is why exploits like the Target Christmas card breach are even possible.

On October 1st, the United States will FINALLY ...

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AUG
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cybersecurity, Identity Theft

Tor Story 2

This is the second of a three-part series of articles about TOR.  On Monday we took a look at the surprising origins of the TOR network.  Today we will be taking a look at how TOR works.

HOW TOR WORKS

To use TOR, a person just needs to go to The TOR Project , and download an install the TOR web browser. Then it makes sense to read the TOR warning document. The rules include:

  • Use the TOR browser
  • Don’t torrent ...
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JUL
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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, NSA, surveillance, TOR

July 31, 2015 – 16th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day

This post is a shameless plug for for me and the my fellow computer support professionals.  Also, this post is completely plagiarized from The System Administrator Day website.

“Your network is secure, your computer is up and running, and your printer is jam-free. Why? Because you’ve got an awesome sysadmin (or maybe a whole IT department) keeping your business up and running. So say IT loud; say IT proud …

Happy SysAdmin Day!

Wait… what exactly is SysAdmin Day? Oh, it’s only ...

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