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It Might Be Possible To Build A Stingray With A Raspberry Pi

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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

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Bugs, Breaches, and More – Application Security Weekly #34

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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→

Smartphones that talk too much

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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.  
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Florida Man Arrested in SIM Swap Conspiracy

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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→

Hackaday Links: June 3, 2018

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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

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Hackaday Links: Some Sort Of Fool’s Day, 2018

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A few years ago, writing for a blog called Motherboard of all things, [Emanuel Maiberg] wrote PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard. The premise is that custom building a gaming PC is too hard, because you have to source components and comparison shop. Again, this was written for Motherboard. Personally, I would have shopped that story around a bit more. Now, the same author is back again, telling us PC Building Simulator is way more fun than building a real computer. It’s my early nomination for worst tech article of the year.

Speaking of motherboards, This is a …read more

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Experts Have Sobering Message on Human Rights, Privacy for Security Pros

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Speakers at Virus Bulletin painted grim pictures of the threats to physical safety and civil liberties posed by commercial spyware and high-end surveillance software often sold to governments. Continue reading Experts Have Sobering Message on Human Rights, Privacy for Security Pros→