Collaborate Disseminate
“They don’t make them like they used to.” It might be a cliché, it might not even be entirely true, but there’s something special about owning a piece of hardware …read more Continue reading Replacement Motherboard Brings New Lease of Life to Classic Thinkpads
While the Intel Management Engine (and, to a similar extent, the AMD Platform Security Processor) continues to plague modern computer processors with security risks, some small progress continues to be made for users who value security of the hardware and software they own. The latest venture in disabling the ME …read more
Continue reading Disable Intel’s Backdoor on Modern Hardware
How to keep your digital devices and accounts safe when exercising your right to peaceably assemble. Continue reading How to Protest Without Sacrificing Your Digital Privacy
From the title, you might think this post is going to be some lame story about someone plugging in some RAM and maybe updating a BIOS. That’s where you’d be wrong. [Downtown Doug Brown] has a much more interesting and instructive story.
[Doug] found his motherboard was rated for 8 …read more
Continue reading Hacking 16GB into an Old PC That Doesn’t Want That Much
Computer manufacturer Supermicro is still trying to lay to rest reports that the Chinese government tempered with its equipment to spy on Western cloud users. Continue reading Supermicro: We told you the tampering claims were false
If there’s one thing that’s making you insecure, it’s your smartphone. Your smartphone is constantly pinging the cell towers, giving out your location and potentially leaking your private information to anyone with a radio. This is the idea behind an IMSI catcher, or Stingray in common parlance, and now you too can build one with parts you can buy off of Amazon.
The key to this hack is a software defined radio dongle, or RTL-SDR, that has been repurposed to listen in on a GSM network. Literally the only hardware required is an RTL-SDR that can be bought online for …read more
Continue reading It Might Be Possible To Build A Stingray With A Raspberry Pi
Facebook discloses the loss of at least 50M Access Tokens also covered by Motherboard Formjacking is on the rise, Google admits to allowing hundreds of companies read your email, FireFox Monitor will alert you when your accounts have been Pwned, Micros… Continue reading Bugs, Breaches, and More – Application Security Weekly #34
In brief, the idea is that the phone’s ‘acoustic signature’ can be used to determine the device users’ password when they unlock the phone.
The post Smartphones that talk too much appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Continue reading Smartphones that talk too much
Police in Florida have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of being part of a multi-state cyber fraud ring that hijacked mobile phone numbers in online attacks that siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from victims.
On July 18, 2018, Pasco County authorities arrested Ricky Joseph Handschumacher, an employee of the city of Port Richey, Fla, charging him with grand theft and money laundering. Investigators allege Handschumacher was part of a group of at least nine individuals scattered across multiple states who for the past two years have drained bank accounts via an increasingly common scheme involving mobile phone “SIM swaps.” Continue reading Florida Man Arrested in SIM Swap Conspiracy
All the Radio Shacks are dead. adioS, or something. But wait, what’s this? There are new Radio Shacks opening. Here’s one in Idaho, and here’s another in Claremore, Oklahoma. This isn’t like the ‘Blockbuster Video in Nome, Alaska’ that clings on by virtue of being so remote; Claremore isn’t that far from Tulsa, and the one in Idaho is in a town with a population of 50,000. Are these corporate stores, or are they the (cool) independent Radio Shacks? Are there component drawers? Anyone want to take a field trip and report?
A few years ago, [cnxsoft] bought a Sonoff …read more