Geek for the Week

10/08/2018

Chinese Motherboard hacks....

Who's your money on? Bloomberg's sources? Apple? Amazon? Super Micro?

10/04/2018

Nightmares are made of this...

The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies by compromising America's technology supply chain.

09/18/2018

So you respond to a junk email...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QdPW8JrYzQ

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01/03/2018

Got an Android phone? Bear this in mind if you ever sell it or have security concerns.

The downside of allowing staff and partners to use their own Android devices on an organization's network isn't just the wide range

12/29/2017

Slow Slow Sorry...

Apple has offered iPhone customers yet another apology for intentionally slowing down the CPU on some older iPhone models in order to increase overall perf

10/12/2017

Apple is secure until it isn't ...

A developer has warned it is possible to create a phishing attack based on a fake sign-in request for Apple ID credentials

09/22/2017

When Wi Fi off is not off! Apple logic invites exploitation.

Quick switch simply disconnects phone from access points and devices rather than turning off the radios, in move criticised by security researchers

09/13/2017

Bluetooth... The open door for hackers..watch this Android,Apple, PC owners.

Armis labs has identified a new attack vector called "BlueBorne." For more information, please visit https://armis.com/blueborne/ It endangers major mobile, ...

07/31/2017

Another chunk out of Apple....
ApplePay vulnerable....
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/28/applepay_vuln/

Are you using payment system over public Wi‑Fi?

07/25/2017

Fruitfly more that a summer nuisance For Mac owners..

http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/01/18/fruitfly-malware-patched-by-apple-relies-on-ancient-mac-system-calls

Newly-patched Mac malware relies on some antiquated code predating the OS X era, but has been used in some previous real-world attacks on biomedical research groups, according to a prominent security software maker.

07/12/2017

Goodbye Windows Phone
it was lovely not knowing you.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/11/15952654/microsoft-windows-phone-end-of-support

Microsoft is killing off Windows Phone 8.1 support today, more than three years after the company first introduced the update. The end of support marks an end to the Windows Phone era, and the...

06/12/2017

Forget about just your credit score..
An extract from corporate surveillance techniques about your credit worthiness.....Some also draw on information on how someone fills out an online form or navigates on a website, the grammar and punctuation of one’s text messages, and the battery status on said individual’s phone. Some companies even include data about someone’s friends on a social network in calculating credit scores.