How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History
this was a really interesting read!
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Posted 9 months ago
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Prey Project
Prey lets you keep track of your phone or laptop at all times, and will help you find it if it ever gets lost or stolen. It’s lightweight, open source software, and free for anyone to use. And it just works.
Posted 9 months ago
Chat Log: What It Looks Like When Hackers Sell Your Credit Card Online
With the number of people exposed in breaches at Sony now topping 100 million, it’s natural to wonder what happens next if your data winds up in the hands of for-profit cybercriminals. The answer is, it probably gets sold for less than the price of first-person-shooter.
Posted 10 months ago
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With Court Order, FBI Hijacks ‘Coreflood’ Botnet, Sends Kill Signal
In an extraordinary intervention, the Justice Department has sought and won permission from a federal judge to seize control of a massive criminal botnet comprising millions of private computers, and deliver a command to those computers to disable the malicious software.
Posted 10 months ago
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Hack Obtains 9 Bogus Certificates for Prominent Websites; Traced to Iran
In a fresh blow to the fundamental integrity of the internet, a hacker last week obtained legitimate web certificates that would have allowed him to impersonate some of the top sites on the internet, including the login pages used by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo e-mail customers.
Posted 11 months ago
VeriFone Takes The Gloves Off, Accuses Square Of Serious Security Hole
Mobile payments are heating up and companies are taking ruthless steps to knock down competitors. Today, VeriFone is claiming that Square’s mobile payments processor contains a serious security threat to credit cardholders and businesses.
Posted 1 year ago
The Alternative History of Public-Key Cryptography
Over the past twenty years, Diffie, Hellman and Merkle have become world famous as the cryptographers who invented the concept of public-key cryptography, while Rivest, Shamir and Adleman have been credited with developing RSA, the most beautiful implementation of public-key cryptography. However, a recent announcement means that the history books are having to be rewritten. According to the British Government, public-key cryptography was originally invented at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham, the top-secret establishment that was formed from the remnants of Bletchley Park after the Second World War. This is a story of remarkable ingenuity, anonymous heroes and a government cover-up that endured for decades.
Posted 1 year ago
DD-WRT, I Know Where You Live
I’ve always envied CSI’s amazing IP address geolocation capabilities. Not only can they get your exact physical address based solely off your IP (right down to your hotel room number!), it even works on IP addresses that don’t exist!
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securityPosted 1 year ago
Coffee shop WiFi for dummies
The average user has no idea of the risks associated with public WiFi hotspots. Here are some very simple tips for them to keep their network access secure.
Posted 1 year ago
Common Mistakes as Python Web Developer
It’s actually a pretty common mistake to use the os.path.join function with arbitrary and unfiltered input, leading to security issues.
Posted 1 year ago
Hacker forces Royal Navy to suspend website
A hacker claims to have broken into the main website run by the British Royal Navy, www.royalnavy.mod.uk, revealing usernames and passwords of administrators.
Posted 1 year ago
Spammers Using SHY Character to Hide Malicious URLs
Spammers have jumped on the little-used soft hyphen (or SHY character) to fool URL filtering devices. According to researchers at Symantec Corp., spammers are larding up URLs for sites they promote with the soft hyphen character, which many browsers ignore.
Posted 1 year ago
Stuxnet malware is 'weapon' out to destroy ... Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant?
Cyber security experts say they have identified the world’s first known cyber super weapon designed specifically to destroy a real-world target – a factory, a refinery, or just maybe a nuclear power plant.
Posted 1 year ago
Sites Feed Personal Details To New Tracking Industry
The largest U.S. websites are installing new and intrusive consumer-tracking technologies on the computers of people visiting their sites—in some cases, more than 100 tracking tools at a time—a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.
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