Collaborate Disseminate
Over the past few years the number of reported near misses between multirotors, or drones as they are popularly referred to, and aircraft has been on the rise. While evidence to back up these reports has been absent time and again.
We’ve looked at incident reports, airport closures, and media …read more
Continue reading DJI Fights Back Over Sensationalist Drone Reporting
From today’s perspective, vacuum tubes are pretty low tech. But for a while they were the pinnacle of high tech, and heavy research followed the promise shown by early vacuum tubes in transmission and computing. Indeed, as time progressed, tubes became very sophisticated and difficult to manufacture. After all, they were as ubiquitous as ICs are today, so it is hardly surprising that they got a lot of R&D.
Prior to 1938, for example, tubes were built as if they were light bulbs. As the demands on them grew more sophisticated, the traditional light bulb design wasn’t sufficient. For one, …read more
From today’s perspective, vacuum tubes are pretty low tech. But for a while they were the pinnacle of high tech, and heavy research followed the promise shown by early vacuum tubes in transmission and computing. Indeed, as time progressed, tubes became very sophisticated and difficult to manufacture. After all, they were as ubiquitous as ICs are today, so it is hardly surprising that they got a lot of R&D.
Prior to 1938, for example, tubes were built as if they were light bulbs. As the demands on them grew more sophisticated, the traditional light bulb design wasn’t sufficient. For one, …read more
Following on from my previous post about the BBC being imitated to perform a bitcoin scam, we were asked to look at another email today, that was uploaded via our submissions system. This is slightly more alarming than the previous one. The email is p… Continue reading Another BBC bitcoin scam. Email is from a compromised School email account
Seldom do people responsible for launching crippling cyberattacks face justice, but increasingly courts around the world are making examples of the few who do get busted for such crimes. On Friday, a 34-year-old Connecticut man received a whopping 10-y… Continue reading Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS
A slightly different scam to report on this weekend. I received a message from a concerned party asking me to look at an email and link to see whether they might have been infected or compromised. Their message reads From: Roger: sally@<redacted&#… Continue reading Bitcoin scam spoofing BBC news
Stolen data from the 81,000 accounts that appeared to be genuine included intimate exchanges between Facebook users. Continue reading Private Facebook data from 81,000 accounts discovered on crime forum
The official UK TV licensing website was allowing license purchasers to submit their personal identifiable information and bank details in unsafe, unencrypted plaintext.
Continue reading TV License website said it was secure. It wasn’t
The official UK TV licensing website was allowing license purchasers to submit their personal identifiable information and bank details in unsafe, unencrypted plaintext.
Continue reading TV License website said it was secure. It wasn’t
mSpy, the makers of a software-as-a-service product that claims to help more than a million paying customers spy on the mobile devices of their kids and partners, has leaked millions of sensitive records online, including passwords, call logs, text mes… Continue reading For 2nd Time in 3 Years, Mobile Spyware Maker mSpy Leaks Millions of Sensitive Records