Uber Creator Invents New Cryptocurrency—And Wants Your Help Making It Reality March 2, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment Over the past five months, Camp has been sketching out plans for a brand new cryptocurrency that aims to fix technical and other challenges plaguing existing projects, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. His hope, he told Fortune, is to resuscitate virtual currency’s original promise: an instant, affordable, and borderless means of payment for the masses.… Read More
Tobii Eye Tracker’s accuracy frightens me March 2, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment I’ve had a Tobii Eye Tracker sitting among a pile of PC peripherals that I want to cover or give away for a year now. I hate when this happens, but time and sanity is limited. But something came over me this week, and I finally did the work to plug in the eye-tracking device… Read More
Hackers exploiting rTorrent to install Unix coin miner have netted $4k so far March 2, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment Attackers have generated $3,900 so far in an ongoing campaign that’s exploiting the popular rTorrent application to install currency-mining software on computers running Unix-like operating systems, researchers said Thursday. Source: arstechnica… Read More
FinFisher exposed: A researcher’s tale of defeating traps, tricks, and complex virtual machines March 2, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment FinFisher is such a complex piece of malware that, like other researchers, we had to devise special methods to crack it. We needed to do this to understand the techniques FinFisher uses to compromise and persist on a machine, and to validate the effectiveness of Office 365 ATP detonation sandbox, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection… Read More
Spectre exploit demo March 2, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment In this demo, we will dump user data without reading it. If you translate the code into Javascript, you could dump IE browser data. Source: github… Read More
Amazon’s policies promote counterfeiting March 2, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment When someone goes to the lengths of making counterfeits of your products, it’s at least a sign you’re doing something right. And it deserves a minute of flatter Source: elevationlab… Read More
Putin boasts new strategic weapons will make US missile defense “useless” March 2, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment In his State of the Nation speech today, Russian president Vladimir Putin showed computer animations and videos demonstrating three new classes of strategic weapons under development that are specifically intended to defeat the United States’ ballistic missile defenses. Among them were two weapons powered by miniaturized nuclear reactors: a drone submarine ‘torpedo’ previously revealed in… Read More
Memcrashed – Major amplification attacks from UDP port 11211 March 2, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment Over last couple of days we’ve seen a big increase in an obscure amplification attack vector – using the memcached protocol, coming from UDP port 11211. In the past, we have talked a lot about amplification attacks happening on the internet. Source: cloudflare… Read More
Memcached-fueled 1.3 Tbps attacks March 2, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment At 17:28 GMT, February 28th, Akamai experienced a 1.3 Tbps DDoS attack against one of our customers, a software development company, driven by memcached reflection. This attack was the largest attack seen to date by Akamai, more than twice the size of the September, 2016 attacks that announced the Mirai botnet and possibly the largest… Read More
Equifax finds ANOTHER 2.4 million Americans hit by breach March 2, 2018 | sento | Leave a comment Just when you thought the Equifax clustermuck couldn’t get any muckier, the credit broker found another 2.4 million Americans affected by its 2017 breach. Source: sophos… Read More