Month: September 2016

Hi-Tech Tool For Measuring Your Kid’s Height

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Sure we can have our kids back up against a wall, force them to stand up straight, and use a ruler on their head to mark their height on the wall, but what kind of hacker would we be? There isn’t a single microcontroller or any electronic component involved! The DIY-family that calls themselves [HomeMadeGarbage] stood tall and came up with a high-tech tool to measure their kid’s height.

In place of the ruler they got a small wooden box to place on the head. Under the box, at the rear end facing down, they mounted a VL53L0X laser ranging …read more

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Can I check that a plain SSL private key corresponds to an encrypted SSL private key without decrypting it?

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I have an AES256-encrypted file ssl.key and the script which sets up some software required this to be decrypted to plain text as ssl.plain.key as in

openssl rsa -in ssl.private.key -out ssl.plain.key

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500 Million Yahoo Accounts Stolen By State-Sponsored Hackers

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Yahoo confirmed that in 2014 state-sponsored hackers stole information associated with 500 million accounts from its network. Continue reading 500 Million Yahoo Accounts Stolen By State-Sponsored Hackers→

We have to start thinking about cybersecurity in space

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With all the difficulties we’ve been having with securing computer systems on Earth, the cybersecurity of space-related technology is surely the last thing on security experts’ minds. But it shouldn’t be, say David Livingstone and Patricia Lewis, two fellows of the international security department at UK-based think-tank Chatham House. “Because so much of human activity is now dependent on space-based assets and infrastructure, most countries’ critical infrastructure is potentially vulnerable to cyberattacks in that domain. … More → Continue reading We have to start thinking about cybersecurity in space→

Planning for a Breach Crisis

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If your company doesn’t have a crisis communication function, and doesn’t have a breach readiness plan, in the event of a public security incident it’s highly likely you will be the one everyone looks at when the CEO says ‘now what do we do?’ How do we manage the media? What do we tell customers, analysts, investors?…

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