Thursday, January 2, 2014

Unencrypted Windows crash reports a ‘significant advantage’ for hackers

"Sniffing crash reports using low-volume “man-in-the-middle” methods — the classic is a rogue Wi-Fi hotspot in a public place — wouldn’t deliver enough information to be valuable, said Watson, but a wiretap at the ISP level, the kind the NSA is alleged to have in place around the world, would."  TechCentral