Hackers Weekly Report – Jan 2016 (*1/2*)
#01 An FBI Hacking Campaign Targeted Over a Thousand Computers In order to fight what it has called one of the largest child pornography sites on the dark [...]
Hacker News
Keeping it simple, Hacker news! Where information meets freedom.
Layered Security
We’ve talked about a wall approach on this site and we’ve talked about an immune system approach to security. Both of these approaches have their valid [...]
Social Engineering Test for Human Error
Ava is supposed to “test” how employees fight off social engineering – by tricking them and stalking their social networks. The implications are [...]
Cyber Warfare
It feels like science fiction. Still, after all these years, it feels like sceince fiction. Cyber Warfare. Yet, this concept which comes so easy to us when we [...]
IoT Security
Your toaster lets your kettle know that the bread is almost toasted to brown perfection, so this is the time to start boiling that water so it will be ready [...]
Apple App Store Hacked: XCode Ghost
Back in March 2015 first first malware infection of iPhones came to light: The Apple App Store was hacked. Back then, it was assumed that only 39 apps had been [...]
Smart Contracts and Bitcoin: The Ideal System for Criminals
The idea of smart contracts has been around since the 1990s, but recently the implications for their use for criminal activity has come under scrutiny of [...]
Smartwatch Vulnerabilities
Smartwatches are the definition of science fiction becoming reality. They are becoming part of our daily lives more and more, and wearable computers are the [...]
Quantum Computers
Digital Computing is easy. The Turing Machine (which is, arguably, one of the basics of modern computers) has two settings: 1 and 0. Quantum computers can do [...]
Keystroke Dynamics – A New Signature
How do you type? Do you type in the same way, every time you type your email address, your password? Chances are, you do. Chances are, you use a pattern, which [...]