Collaborate Disseminate
Good news from Jezero crater as the Mars rover Perseverance manages to accomplish for the first time what it was sent to do: collect and cache core samples from rocks. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 5, 2021
Ah, phone phreaking. Some of us are just old enough to remember the ubiquity of land lines, but just young enough to have missed out on the golden years of …read more Continue reading Evan Doorbell’s Telephone World
We’ve all stared at that button in the elevator with the phone icon on it, supremely confident that if the cab came to a screeching halt while rocketing up to the 42nd floor, a simple button press would be your salvation. To be fair, that’s probably true. But the entire …read more
Continue reading Those Elevator Emergency Call Buttons Are Actually Pretty Janky
As Internet security has evolved it has gotten easier to lock your systems down. Many products come out of the box pre-configured to include decent security practices, and most of the popular online services have wised up about encryption and password storage. That’s not to say that things are perfect, but as the computer systems get tougher to crack, the bad guys will focus more on the unpatchable system in the mix — the human element.
Ever since the days of the ancient Greeks, and probably before that, social engineering has been one option to get around …read more
Continue reading Social Engineering is on The Rise: Protect Yourself Now