Collaborate Disseminate
There’s something so satisfying about the killer usb drive:
https://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/usb-killer-flash-drive-can-fry-your-computers-innards-in-seconds/
220 volts straight to the motherboard of an unsuspecting … Continue reading MicroUSB equivilent of the Killer USB drive?
I was wondering how a device (eg. RPi or similar board could be built/configured in a way that when you plug it to a LAN (or connect Wifi) it let’s you remotely access the LAN (like VPN, but without the ports open on the main… Continue reading How can you build a device that gives you remote access to a connected LAN? (Not VPN) [on hold]
I’ve heard about a rule in Information Security, that once a hacker has access to your physical machine, then it’s all over. However, there seems to be a big exception to this rule: iPhones.
It was all over the news a while back that the CIA (or the FBI or something) could not access information from a terrorist’s phone for their counter-terrorism ops. They had to ask Apple to create them an unlocking program that could unlock the phone for them.
My question is, why are iPhones so hard to hack?
Continue reading Why is iPhone’s internal storage so hard to crack/decrypt?
Some background: My org is potentially involved in a legal dispute with a securities brokerage in a under-developed country with mediocre rule of law. The broker also is responsible for co-locating a machine used for trading … Continue reading Malicious Actor with Physical Access to Encrypted Machine
With more and more devices accepting finger prints in place of passwords, could it be possible to “keylog” these finger prints on mobile devices, for example, by installing a rogue application and then reproducing that finger… Continue reading Could it be possible to hijack physical finger prints in digital form and use them to gain access to other devices and locations?
I see that there is an increasing number of PCs shipped with firmware based TPM (fTPM), e.g. the Intel NUC.
As far as I understand, these solutions practically emulate a TPM chip using the CPUs special instructions (ARM TrustZone or Intel… Continue reading Do fTPM implementations protect against physical attacks?
I saw that there is an increasing number of PCs shipped with firmware based TPM (fTPM), e.g. the Intel NUC.
As far as I understand, these solutions practically emulate a TPM chip using the CPUs special instructions. That mak… Continue reading Do fTPM implementations protect against physical attacks?
A researcher has found a backdoor, which he calls Pork Explosion, in an Android bootloader built by Foxconn. Continue reading Leftover Factory Debugger Doubles as Android Backdoor
I am looking to make a clean install of a Debian system on my home desktop. To clarify, I am switching from Windows and wish to use it as my day-to-day home OS – I’m not going to be running any servers or anything like that.
… Continue reading Hardening Linux desktop machine against people from my household
I recently came across an electronic deadbolt like this:
The keys have multiple numbers per button, 1|2, 3|4, 5|6, 7|8, 9|0
Is there any way that this increases the security of the electronic lock? It seems like having two numbers per b… Continue reading Does multiple numbers per button have an effect on security?