Wow, that’s cool!
I would like to coin the phrase “Cybernotic Suggestion” for when brain-to-brain communication over the Internet is subject to a man-in-the-middle attack and the receiving end of the mind comm. gets suggested brain waves.
Anonymous is a truth movement advocating hacktivism as self-defense for unconstitutional government. It is our aim to shed light on corrupt government in order to set people free from oppression. Read more about the Million Mask March.
Guy Fawkes is sometimes toasted as “the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions“.
“With just a mobile phone we created a POS terminal that could read a card through a wallet,” explains Martin Emms, from the NewCastle University research team during the 2014 ACM CCS Conference held in the city of Scottsdale, Arizona, USA on November 3 – 7, 2014. A flaw in Visa’s contactless credit cards means they will approve unlimited cash transactions without a PIN when the amount is requested in a foreign currency.
By pre-setting the amount you want to transfer, you can bump your mobile against someone’s pocket or swipe your phone over a wallet left on a table and approve a transaction. In tests, it took less than a second for the transaction to be approved.
Visa said it would be “very difficult” to carry out such a theft in reality.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-29862080
http://thehackernews.com/2014/11/hackers-can-steal-99999999-from-visa.html
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/item/contactless-cards-fail-to-recognise-foreign-currency
rootpipe, a privilege escalation vulnerability in OS X version 10.10, allows attackers to completely bypass logging in and gaining the highest administration privilege on a Mac.
To protect against it, create a new admin user and remove the admin rights from the daily used account. Make sure that admin account has a super strong password. Also, use the Apple FileVault tool to encrypt the contents of the hard drive.
AirHopper demonstrates how textual and binary data can be ex-filtrated from physically an isolated computer to mobile phones at a distance of 1-7 meters, with effective bandwidth of 13 to 60 bps. Enough to steal a password. The technology works by using the FM radio receiver included in many mobile phones and can capture keystrokes by intercepting certain radio emissions from the monitor or display unit of the isolated computer. The video shows how its possible to pick up FM signals on a nearby smartphone and translate the FM signals into the typed text.
With appropriate software, compatible radio signals can be produced by a compromised computer, utilizing the electromagnetic radiation associated with the video display adapter. This combination, of a transmitter with a widely used mobile receiver, creates a potential covert channel that is not being monitored by ordinary security instrumentation. Thusly, this proof of concept proves that if an attacker can place malware into a target’s phone, they can gather data getting entered into disconnected machines. So even disconnected machines aren’t safe.
Happy Halloween!
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This might be the longest one I’ve done so far: List of data breaches and cyber attacks in October http://t.co/AtYQ3vBJEa
— Lewis Morgan (@LewisMorgan_) October 28, 2014
Payment information breach
Data breach
Cyber attack
Discovered vulnerabilities
An extension from this old post, the 8 year old, identified as Reuben Paul, has grown in fame. He demonstrates in this video, some of his mastery of hacking tools and his thought processes.
Here is an article/interview from Tripwire.
The Internet’s Most Wanted!
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Over the past week, at least three U.S. financial institutions reported receiving tens of thousands of dollars in fraudulent credit and debit card transactions coming from Brazil and hitting card accounts stolen in recent retail heists… The problem with that though is that they were all submitted through Visa and MasterCard‘s networks as chip-enabled transactions, even though the banks that issued the cards in question haven’t even yet begun sending customers chip-enabled cards.
Smart cards can provide identification, authentication, data storage and application processing. But that doesn’t even matter anymore.
More from Krebs.
