Collaborate Disseminate
Two students have created a demo of a smart-glasses app that performs automatic facial recognition and then information lookups. Kind of obvious—something similar was done in 2011—but the sort of creepy demo that gets attention.
News article.
Continue reading Auto-Identification Smart Glasses
The new site 404 Media has a good article on how hackers are cheaply getting personal information from credit bureaus:
This is the result of a secret weapon criminals are selling access to online that appears to tap into an especially powerful set of data: the target’s credit header. This is personal information that the credit bureaus Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion have on most adults in America via their credit cards. Through a complex web of agreements and purchases, that data trickles down from the credit bureaus to other companies who offer it to debt collectors, insurance companies, and law enforcement…
Continue reading The Hacker Tool to Get Personal Data from Credit Bureaus
Sagar Singh and Nicholas Ceraolo have been charged for their alleged roles in a doxing operation that involved hacking a law enforcement platform and email account.
The post US Charges Two Men Over Use of Hacked Law Enforcement Database for Doxing appe… Continue reading US Charges Two Men Over Use of Hacked Law Enforcement Database for Doxing
In this report, we propose to go over the various activities that were observed in cyberspace in relation to the conflict in Ukraine, understand their meaning in the context of the current conflict, and study their impact on the cybersecurity field as a whole. Continue reading Reassessing cyberwarfare. Lessons learned in 2022
By Waqas
According to Kiwi Farms, prior to service disruption, the forum was targeted by a “DDoS attack and other forms of attempted network intrusion.”
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Kiwi Farms Goes Offline amid DDoS Attack a… Continue reading Kiwi Farms Goes Offline amid DDoS Attack and Hosting Issues
Pangu Lab in China just published a report of a hacking operation by the Equation Group (aka the NSA). It noticed the hack in 2013, and was able to map it with Equation Group tools published by the Shadow Brokers (aka some Russian group).
…the sc… Continue reading Details of an NSA Hacking Operation
The pandemic and the restrictions that came with it have led to an increase in the popularity of dating apps. But what about their security? Continue reading Remote dating: How do the apps safeguard our data?
SolarWinds attacks, MS Exchange vulnerabilities, fake adblocker distributing miner, malware for Apple Silicon platform and other threats in Q1 2021. Continue reading IT threat evolution Q1 2021
Modern ransomware has two dimensions: pay to get your data back, and pay not to have your data dumped on the Internet. The DC police are the victims of this ransomware, and the criminals have just posted personnel records — “including the results of psychological assessments and polygraph tests; driver’s license images; fingerprints; social security numbers; dates of birth; and residential, financial, and marriage histories” — for two dozen police officers.
The negotiations don’t seem to be doing well. The criminals want $4M. The DC police offered them $100,000…
Corporate doxing poses a serious threat to the confidential data of a company. Continue reading Doxing in the corporate sector