Collaborate Disseminate
Students are being spied on as they do online exams, how did a televised football match reveal the truth about artificial intelligence, and what on earth is the Canny Lumpsucker vulnerability?
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest e… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #203: Testing times, naming names, and the bald truth about AI
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, July 2020.The standout hack of July 2020, and possibly of the year, was the takeover of 45 celebrity Twit… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for August 2020
The beautiful game is back on the pitch in the U.K. — and cyberattackers will be looking to take advantage of fans streaming the games. Continue reading Premier League’s Return: A Hat Trick of Cyberthreats?
For his final project in UCLA’s Physics 4AL program, [Timothy Kanarsky] used a NodeMCU to smarten up a carefully dissected NERF football. With the addition to dual MPU6050 digital accelerometers and some math, the ball can calculate things like the distance traveled and angular velocity. With a 9 V alkaline …read more
Continue reading ESP8266 and Sensors Make for a Brainy NERF Ball
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, February 2020.
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council became the latest UK organisation to become the victi… Continue reading Cyber Security Roundup for March 2020
The sport of football is a multi-billion-pound global industry, where the world’s top-drawer football clubs push competitive advantages to the extreme, not just for the prestige of winning trophies, as success on the pitch also means a greater slice of… Continue reading The Billion Pound Manchester City Hack
If Everton Football Club’s Twitter account was really hacked to say it was signing Everton Soares then it needs to look at hardening its defence.
If the hack occurred at all, of course.
Continue reading Did Everton sign Everton? Twitter hack blamed for soccer sign-up screwup
While football in the United States means something totally different from what it means in the rest of the world, fans everywhere take it pretty seriously. This Sunday is the peak of U.S. football frenzy, the Super Bowl, and it is surprisingly high-tech. The NFL has invested in a lot …read more
“We are here to show people that everything is hackable,” says hacking group OurMine, back to spread its unwelcome spiel on hacked accounts. Continue reading 15 NFL teams’ Twitter hijacked in lead-up to the Super Bowl
Footballers’ wives go to war over Instagram leaks, it turns out fake news is fine on Facebook (just so long as it’s in a political ad), and things take a horrific turn in Japan, as a stalker uses a scary technique to find out where his pop … Continue reading Smashing Security #150: Liverpool WAGs, Facebook politics, and a selfie stalker