I had a conversation with my in-laws this past week we got into a conversation about their wifi password. Basically, they have an ATT router setup where the password is on the underside of the modem. This password is something like “7%b6c9m4k”. No one can ever remember it. The best …
This is quite interesting and I’m pretty amazed it has taken so long for this to be created. (via businessinsider.com) tl;dr A big new feature for iPhones this year is Shortcuts, an app that lets you write scripts for the iPhone. One widely shared shortcut is called Police, which records …
In case you haven’t heard the new there is a massive security flaw in macOS, which allows anybody to log into the root account with a blank password. The flaw was discovered by Lemi Orhan Ergin (@lemiorhan): Read the whole article
Researcher Mathy Vanhoef of imec-DistriNet hax found a critical flaw in the current WPA2 protocol. We discovered serious weaknesses in WPA2, a protocol that secures all modern protected Wi-Fi networks. An attacker within range of a victim can exploit these weaknesses using key reinstallation attacks (KRACKs). Concretely, attackers can use this novel attack technique to read information …
of course you can “check yourself” at their site A team of lawyers, including former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes, has filed a class-action lawsuit against Equifax over the massive data breach that has compromised the personal information of more than 140 million U.S. consumers. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District …
Motherboard takes a look into the now common practice that many of America’s farmers are getting into, Tractor Hacking. To avoid the draconian locks that John Deere puts on the tractors they buy, farmers throughout America’s heartland have started hacking their equipment with firmware that’s cracked in Eastern Europe and …
Good read on new DDoS methods and response from Carnegie Mellon. “We have recently seen more sophisticated attacks, such as the recent Dyn attack. As IEEE Spectrum recently reported, “Attacking a DNS or a content delivery provider such as Dyn or Akamai in this manner gives hackers the ability to …
