• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-05-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Nasty Lenovo UEFI exploit also affects products from other vendors

A critical vulnerability that was recently found in the low-level firmware of Lenovo ThinkPad systems also reportedly exists in products from other vendors, including HP and Gigabyte Technology.
An exploit for the vulnerability was published last week and can be used […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-05-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Android’s full disk encryption can be brute-forced on devices with Qualcomm chips

Attackers can exploit vulnerabilities in Android devices with Qualcomm chipsets in order to extract the encrypted keys that protect users’ data and run brute-force attacks against them.
The attack was demonstrated last week by security researcher Gal Beniamini and uses two […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-05-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Android’s full disk encryption can be brute-forced on devices with Qualcomm chips

Attackers can exploit vulnerabilities in Android devices with Qualcomm chipsets in order to extract the encrypted keys that protect users’ data and run brute-force attacks against them.
The attack was demonstrated last week by security researcher Gal Beniamini and uses two […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jul-05-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on EU plans $2B investment in cybersecurity research

The European Union is stumping up €450 million ($500 million) to fund research into cybersecurity — and wants industry to contribute three times that.The EU’s executive body, the European Commission, is concerned about the vulnerability of the EU economy to […]