Category Archives: Octopus

[SANS ISC] Malicious Word Document Delivering an Octopus Backdoor

Posted on by

I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Malicious Word Document Delivering an Octopus Backdoor“: Here is an interesting malicious Word document that I spotted yesterday. This time, it does not contain a macro but two embedded objects that the victim must “activate” (click on one of them) to perform the malicious activities.

The post [SANS ISC] Malicious Word Document Delivering an Octopus Backdoor appeared first on /dev/random.

Continue reading [SANS ISC] Malicious Word Document Delivering an Octopus Backdoor→

Verodin, Palo Alto, & Okta – Enterprise Security Weekly #139

Posted on by

    John Strand and Paul Asadoorian discuss how Okta joins forces with Secret Double Octopus, Tenable unveils new innovations for Cyber Exposure analytics, Barracuda launches bot protection feature for firewall offerings, and some acquisition and fundi… Continue reading Verodin, Palo Alto, & Okta – Enterprise Security Weekly #139→

A Robot Arm With The Tender Grip Of An Octopus

Posted on by

If you’ve ever experimented with a robot gripper, you’ll know that while it is easy to make an analogue of the human ability to grip between thumb and forefinger, it is extremely difficult to capture the nuances of grip with the benefit of touch feedback to supply only just enough of the force required to grip and hold an object. You as a human can pick up a delicate eggshell without breaking it using the same hand you might use to pick up a baseball or a cricket ball, but making your robot do the same thing is something of …read more

Continue reading A Robot Arm With The Tender Grip Of An Octopus→

Soft Robot With Microfluidic Logic Circuit

Posted on by

Perhaps our future overlords won’t be made up of electrical circuits after all but will instead be soft-bodied like ourselves. However, their design will have its origins in electrical analogues, as with the Octobot.

The Octobot is the brainchild a team of Harvard University researchers who recently published an article about it in Nature. Its body is modeled on the octopus and is composed of all soft body parts that were made using a combination of 3D printing, molding and soft lithography. Two sets of arms on either side of the Octobot move, taking turns under the control of a …read more

Continue reading Soft Robot With Microfluidic Logic Circuit→