It’s when you see a headline saying “Credit card skimming malware targeting ATMs”, that you get that sinking feeling that you haven’t been paranoid enough.
Security firm Sophos is reporting that they’ve discovered one or more trojans in the wild targeting Automated Teller Machines made by leading US manufacturer Diebold.
Apparently, the trojans skim money and steal [...]
Posts Tagged ‘security’
Hacking ATMs
Vista DRM The ‘Longest Suicide Note in History’?
Windows Vista is crippled by design, according to security researcher Peter Gutmann.
Gutmann’s paper, A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection, has caused quite a bit of a stir since first The Inquirer and later Slashdot picked it up.
A choice quote, from the Executive Executive Summary(sic):
The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the
longest [...]
‘Twas the night before Christmas…
…and all throughout the World many a foul creature was stirring.
Unfortunately, some of those creatures are more scary than even the most terrifying of the monsters of our childhood. They are determined to kill me, you, our friends or just some random people waiting for the bus. In fact they don’t care, so long as [...]
Excuse me, who are the bad guys again?
Recent news stories (C|Net News, Ars Technica, Slashdot) inform us that the US Government is eavesdropping on people through their cell phones, even when those cell phones appear to be turned off.
Lauren Weinstein, in his blog, warns against rampant paranoia and tries to bring the discussion down to earth. I’d like to think he’s right, [...]