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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Darktrace – Systems fighting Systems
A tiny amoeba makes it’s way across the prehistoric mud. It is happily sliming away, as – suddenly – it is attacked. The amoeba now has two [...]
Android’s Stagefright: One Billion Users at Risk?
950 million (and potentially over 1.1 billion) Android phones are vulnerable to a series of hacks, which include DOS, UI spoofing and stealing of user [...]
Radio Waves of Doom
We thought the day and age for the good old Radio signals were done and dusted, didn’t we? Long gone are the days, when we had to tune in to find the [...]