Collaborate Disseminate
Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring, and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the MedSec/Muddy Waters story, how the Angler EK was traced back to the Lurk Gang, Fairware hitting Linux servers, and the Bashlite IoT malware. Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap, September 2, 2016
Facebook deleted two videos showing a standoff between Korryn Gaines and a SWAT team, who later shot her to death. Continue reading Facebook Needs a Public Editor
AI finally works—we just don’t know how. Continue reading When AI Goes Wrong, We Won’t Be Able to Ask It Why
We want other people’s cars to sacrifice their passenger if it means saving more lives, but we wouldn’t buy one ourselves. Continue reading People Want Autonomous Cars to Protect the Greater Good, But Only After Them
It seems that information relating to porn habits is quite telling, why wouldn’t porn websites make the effort in protecting them?
Continue reading Why do porn websies not use HTTPS? [closed]
I stumbled across a huge security vulnerability in a Certificate Authority that is trusted by all modern browsers and computers.
Specifically, I am able to get a valid signed certificate for a domain I don’t own. If I had th… Continue reading How do I report a security vulnerability about a trusted certificate authority?
Summary:
For most non technical people, who hear about computer security either in the news because of some giant breach or in the movies, there are two kind of hackers:
The professional people hired by often large company… Continue reading How to communicate a positive feeling about ethical hacking to non technical people? [closed]
Skip to the fifth paragraph for the actual question, before that is some background.
I am a highschool student with an interest in computers and penetration testing. Given the restrictions placed on student-level access on t… Continue reading Ethical question regarding accessible sensitive data at school
While I was working on a anomaly detection system (finding cheaters in a quite popular online game service) I accidentally found a way to get a password of a user in a reasonable amount of time. Basically, the whole idea to build an anomal… Continue reading Consequences of grey hat hacking
I was browsing a website, and stumbled across a sample scheme for password-protecting web pages. The owner of the website specifically had a page that invited people to attempt to hack it.
I wanted to give it a try, so I wrote up a quick… Continue reading I think I accidentally DoS’d a website. What should I do?