Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
Politics Are Disgusting
Today has been a nasty week. Between a two-day running argument with a group calling themselves "Anarcho-Capitalists" ending in the revelation that a rape victim in their utopia would have to self-fund her own justice, and listening to someone I normally trust go hardline-centrist for no apparent reason, I am mentally exhausted already. This "ancap" […]
How feasable is that hardware hack China allegedly did?
TL;DR, not hard at all, really - there are plenty of places to physically hack a system, and plenty of tiny microcontrollers that can do the job. Thing is, it was already possible anyway... Source: Hardware Implants • SecuringHardware.com
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Shodan 2000 HOLES, GLORIOUS HOLES
Over 17000 Mac Machines Affected by 'iWorm' Botnet Malware
Over 17000 Mac Machines Affected by 'iWorm' Botnet Malware. The only thing this worm CAN'T do is bend your iPhone, but your ass is more than capable of doing that without worms. ;)
Crack Attack 2014
What the hell was up these last few days?? It's seemed like one exploit after another, between the bash exploit, the problems at Acme, and my own network intrusion. Talk about damaging and embarassing! :( At least CC wasn't affected. It was just one old system I used to update my phone firmware - which […]
Watch_Dogs Should Frighten You
Recently there have been many articles posted about the level of "realism" in the game Watch_Dogs and whether or not the things that happen in the game are possible. Unfortunately, most of the discussion has been about weaponized hacking - the stoplight changing and electric-junction-blowing over the top stuff, rather than the parts that are […]