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This post is also available in: עברית (Hebrew) Growing terrorist threats to transportation systems around the world and the possibility of a massive attack have brought about an increase in security measures employed by the authorities. The Los Angeles metro will roll out body scanners in its subway stations to detect weapons and explosives, becoming…
In recent military exercises along the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan demonstrated its inventory of Harop loitering munitions. This drone-adjacent category, think of it as of “unpeopled flying machines armed with sensors,” fits somewhere between cruise missile and landmine. It is often launched into an area to find a target and then collides with that target in…
Researchers launched a Proof-of-Concept attack on two Android mobile phones and an embedded system board. Researchers have developed a proof-of-concept side-channel attack that allows them to pull encryption keys from a single decryption for a modern version of OpenSSL. The attack impacts mobile devices — without physical access to the handsets. A group of researchers…
Military airplanes started as unarmed scouts in 1909. By 1911, pilot Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti, flying a plane for the Kingdom of Italy, decided to bring some grenades with him for a mission above Libya, and then drop them near a Turkish camp target below. While Gavotti’s flight didn’t cause any casualties, it set the stage…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Giant cranes loading and unloading gargantuan barges. Oil tankers, supply vessels and pipelines serving a vital energy industry. Flood control structures. Chemical plants. Cruise ships. Drinking water sources. All computer-reliant and tied in some way to the internet. All of them vulnerable to cyber thieves, hackers and terrorists. Roughly nine months…
The Asian dark web is not well known. Most people just think of Russia when thinking about underground hacking forums. To gain a better understanding of Asian onion sites and black markets, researchers from IntSights embarked on a six-month long investigation and analysis. The results, published this week at Black Hat, show a diverse, culturally…
For the first time in recent history, the intelligence community has established a common vision with common operating principles that reaches all of its disparate agencies. “The leaders of the [US] intelligence community about a year ago got together and we – for the first time I can recall – got together and established a…
IARPA = Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (analog to DARPA = Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) On the day she was named to the position, the new director of the intelligence community’s research arm emphasized using machine learning to forecast cyberattacks. “You are going to need algorithms that you trust, algorithms that you understand,…
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The Foreshadow vulnerability is a good example of why not to put SGX at the cornerstone of a cryptocurrency project: because Intel has a backdoor into all SGX devices, it’s long been a controversial tech avenue for cryptocurrency projects, anyway. “Though even *if* it had been somehow perfect, it was never a good idea to…
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“law enforcement has even confirmed that AT&T employees profited from working directly with cyber terrorists and thieves in SIM swap frauds“ [UPDATED 22 AUG 2018 – ARREST MADE … scroll down] Michael Terpin is suing AT&T [aka formerly SBC], claiming the company’s failure to protect his cellphone data led to hackers stealing $24 million…
“Hack the Marine Corps allows us to leverage the talents of the global ethical hacker community” — Maj. Gen. Matthew Glavy, Commander of the U.S. Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command The U.S. Department of Defense on Monday announced the launch of “Hack the Marine Corps,” the Military’s sixth bug bounty program. Similar to previous…
“the astonishing fact is that this botnet was, inadvertently, performing brute-force attacks against SATCOM modems located onboard an in-flight aircraft” A researcher has discovered that hundreds of airplanes from several airlines could have been hacked remotely from the ground through vulnerabilities in satellite communications systems. Back in 2014, IOActive Principal Security Consultant Ruben Santamarta…
Foreshadow: New Speculative Execution Flaws Found in Intel CPUs Researchers and several major tech companies on Tuesday disclosed the details of three new speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities affecting Intel processors. The flaws, tracked as Foreshadow and L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF), were discovered independently by two research teams, who reported their findings to Intel in January,…
Chinese officers destroy seized drugs in June, 2018 Privacy concerns, cultural differences fuel skepticism about this approach in other settings Dozens of cities across China are applying an unusual forensic technique to monitor illegal drug use: chemically analysing sewage for traces of drugs, or their telltale metabolites, excreted in urine. One southern city, Zhongshan,…
To the delight of everyone, this year’s official DEF CON badge is an electronic badge chock full of entertainment. Of course there is blinky, the board is artistic, and everyone hopefully maybe gets one (it’s rumored 27,000+ were manufactured) if they don’t run out. But the badge contest at DEF CON is legendary — solve…
X-Force Red: Team of veteran hackers testing the security of consumer and industrial Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, automotive equipment, and Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) IBM’s X-Force Red, a team of veteran hackers focused on finding security vulnerabilities in devices and systems, now has four new labs to work in. The new network of…
Nation-state attacks against the critical infrastructure of an adversary state are effectively military operations; and military operations are planned with incredible detail. A security firm established a sophisticated honeypot masquerading as a power transmission substation for a major electricity provider. The purpose was to attract attackers and analyze how they operate against the energy…
U.S. troops serving overseas will be able to use a smartphone app based on blockchain technology for casting federal election ballots in West Virginia this November, CNN reports August 6. The mobile voting platform, Voatz, employes facial recognition software to ensure that each voter matches their government-issued identification. CNN notes that the West Virginia will…
Researchers have uncovered a huge botnet that mimics legitimate accounts on Twitter to spread a cryptocurrency “giveaway” scam. As reported by ITPro, the discovery was made during a research effort by Duo Security that looked at 88 million Twitter accounts from May to July and used machine learning to identify bots, malicious or otherwise, on the social…
Workers prepare the Air Force’s third Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite for launch Sept. 12, 2013, near Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The space vehicle was encapsulated into its fairing Aug. 27, 2013, before being mated to an Atlas V rocket. It was scheduled to launch Sept. 18, 2013. AEHF is a joint-service system…
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