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This week, police dog sniffers, secrets of the wipers, hacking trains, your data not in Russia, Chili’s breach, Electron vulnerabilities and Signal vulnerabilities. Jason Wood from Paladin Security joins us for expert commentary on even more deta… Continue reading Train Wi-Fi, Electron, Chili’s Breach, and EFail PGP Vulnerability – Hack Naked News #173
We’re all used to posing for a picture — or a selfie — but there’s something about photo booths that make getting your photo taken an exciting and urgent affair. To make this experience a bit easier to tote about, Redditor [pedro_g_s] has laboriously built, from the ground up, a mobile photo booth named Buzz.
He needed a touchscreen, a Raspberry Pi, almost definitely a webcam, and a 3D printer to make a case — although any medium you choose will do — to build this ‘booth.’ That said, he’s built the app in a way that a touchscreen isn’t …read more
On January 21st, 2018 at 1:43 GMT, Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket lifted off from New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula. Roughly eight minutes later ground control received confirmation that the vehicle entered into a good orbit, followed shortly by the successful deployment of the payload. On only their second attempt, Rocket Lab had become the latest private company to put a payload into orbit. An impressive accomplishment, but even more so when you realize that the Electron is like no other rocket that’s ever flown before.
Not that you could tell from the outside. If anything, the external appearance of the Electron …read more
Continue reading Smaller and Smarter: The Electron Rocket Takes Flight
The team behind the popular open-source framework Electron warns a remote code execution flaw could compromise user privacy. Continue reading Skype, Slack and Other Popular Windows Apps Vulnerable to Critical Framework Bug
The team behind the popular open-source framework Electron warns a remote code execution flaw could compromise user privacy. Continue reading Skype, Slack and Signal Vulnerable to Critical Framework Bug
Electron, a popular web application writing platform underlying some extremely widespread software including Skype and Slack, is vulnerable to a critical remote code execution vulnerability. Apps are only vulnerable if they run on Microsoft Windows and register themselves as the default handler for a protocol like myapp://. MacOS and Linux apps are not vulnerable. Referred to as a “Protocol Handler Vulnerability,” the problem has been assigned the number CVE-2018-1000006. Protocols like slack:// make it so that users can click links from other software like a web browser and directly go to, for instance, the Slack app. Several widely used apps are built on Electron, including Windows desktop apps for the encrypted messaging app Signal, the audio chat app Discord and the content management system WordPress. However, most of these apps don’t register themselves as the default handler for a protocol like myapp:// so they are not vulnerable. You can find a full list of Electron apps here to better understand the […]
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Electric current comes in many forms: current in a wire, flow of ions between the plates of a battery and between plates during electrolysis, as arcs, sparks, and so on. However, here on Hackaday we mostly deal with the current in a wire. But which way does that current flow in that wire? There are two possibilities depending on whether you’re thinking in terms of electron current or conventional current.
In a circuit connected to a battery, the electrons are the charge carrier and flow from the battery’s negative terminal, around the circuit and back to the positive terminal.
Conventional …read more
In the electronics industry, the march of time brings with it a reduction in size. Our electronic devices, while getting faster, better and cheaper, also tend to get smaller. One of the main reasons for this is the storage medium for binary data gets smaller and more efficient. Many can recall the EPROM, which is about the size of your thumb. Today we walk around with SD cards that can hold an order of magnitude more data, which can fit on your thumb’s nail.
Naturally, we must ask ourselves where the limit lies. Just how small can memory storage get? …read more
In the electronics industry, the march of time brings with it a reduction in size. Our electronic devices, while getting faster, better and cheaper, also tend to get smaller. One of the main reasons for this is the storage medium for binary data gets smaller and more efficient. Many can recall the EPROM, which is about the size of your thumb. Today we walk around with SD cards that can hold an order of magnitude more data, which can fit on your thumb’s nail.
Naturally, we must ask ourselves where the limit lies. Just how small can memory storage get? …read more
This could pave the way for quantum computer circuits where electron qubits exchange information via photons. Continue reading Quantum Leap: Researchers Send Information Using a Single Particle of Light
