Through the Internet Security Research Group, Mozilla Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., Akamai Technologies, Electronic Frontier Foundation, IdenTrust, Inc., and University of Michigan researchers are looking to create a new free certificate authority. This CA has the goal of allowing TLS-protected communication, the successor to SSL, a certificate to be installed on a server … [Read more...]
Windows 10 Technical Preview Feedback provides access to Microsoft
The Technical Preview for Windows 10 allows individuals to test out Microsoft's next operating system and the company is asking for feedback to make the product better. Typical reactions to the feedback channel is to just respond with problems encountered or likes/dislikes of what you see. It is also important to take advantage of this opportunity to direct Microsoft's … [Read more...]
The results of Mobile Pwn2Own 2014
The third annual Mobile Pwn2Own was held in Tokyo at the PacSec conference. HP with Google Android security team and Blackberry sponsoring are offering cash and prizes totaling over $425,000 to security researchers able to compromise the mobile devices. The payout breakdown provides for different reward levels depending on which vector was used to hack it. Mobile Web Browser … [Read more...]
BrowserStack hacked over the weekend
BrowserStack is a cloud service to allow developers to test their web applications across a variety of desktop and mobile browsers. Over the weekend, customers of the service were sent an email claiming that the site was shutting down. The email also disclosed a variety of bad security practices, which one would believe related to the site compromise. The email is below. Dear … [Read more...]
Reversing image burn-in on an iMac
Earlier this week, I ran into an issue copying Adobe Creative Cloud package files from my iMac to a server share. The copying process ended halfway through with an error -36 "The Finder can't complete the operation because some data in (filename) can't be read or written." I rebuilt the package, in case it was corrupted, which were several GB in size. I let the copy process … [Read more...]