Geek for the Week

Chinese Motherboard hacks....

Decoding the Chinese Super Micro super spy-chip super-scandal: What do we know – and who is telling the truth? Who's your money on? Bloomberg's sources? Apple? Amazon? Super Micro?

Nightmares are made of this...

China Used a Tiny Chip in a Hack That Infiltrated U.S. Companies The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies by compromising America's technology supply chain.

So you respond to a junk email...

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

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

Factory reset not enough to sanitize Android phones: Researchers The downside of allowing staff and partners to use their own Android devices on an organization's network isn't just the wide range

Slow Slow Sorry...

Apple apologizes with $29 iPhone battery replacements | Cult of Mac 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

Apple is secure until it isn't ...

Your iPhone's password demands aren't just annoying. They're a security flaw A developer has warned it is possible to create a phishing attack based on a fake sign-in request for Apple ID credentials

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

iOS 11: toggling wifi and Bluetooth in Control Centre doesn't actually turn them off Quick switch simply disconnects phone from access points and devices rather than turning off the radios, in move criticised by security researchers

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

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

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

Wallet-snatch hack: ApplePay 'vulnerable to attack', claim researchers Are you using payment system over public Wi‑Fi?

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

'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.

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

Windows Phone dies today 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...

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.