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Tag Archives: functional security testing
China Chamber Hack
January 23, 2012 – 6:00 am
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Siobhan Gorman is back in strong form on the front page of the December 21, 2011 Wall Street Journal with her article “China Hackers Hit U.S. Chamber,” which suggests at first glance that hackers made from porcelain were successfully thrown into some U.S. person’s bedroom. However, the…
Printer Too Ready
January 9, 2012 – 6:00 am
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In a December 8, 2011 post to CNET News, Elinor Mills writes, in a piece with the title “HP sued over security flaw in printers,” about how a Columbia University research team was able to compromise the embedded software in HP LaserJet printers.
First off, the photograph of a printer, which…
Google Plus – Disk Space Minus, Spam Double Minus
July 25, 2011 – 6:00 am
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Google’s foray into Facebook’s space hit an unfortunate glitch during its “field trial” … the system ran out of disk space and was down for more than an hour and those users, who were affected, received a deluge of emails … see Graham Cluley’s post “Google+ runs out of…
Vindication for Toyota? Proving the Negative
March 14, 2011 – 6:00 am
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In my February 16, 2010 Bloginfosec column “Negative Testing Revisited – Vehicle Control Systems (Part 1),” I describe and discuss the concerns about the software controlling the brakes on Toyota regular-engine and hybrid vehicles and Ford hybrids. The supposition was that there were…
Was Citi Sleeping? Could Functional Security Testing Have Saved the Day?
January 10, 2011 – 6:00 am
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Do you remember reading over the summer about Citigroup having a security hole in an iPhone app, which stored all manner of nonpublic personal information in a file? … and that the data could then be transferred to a PC? In the Technology section of the July 27, 2010 The Wall Street…