Collaborate Disseminate
For years, Microsoft’s modus operandi was summed up succinctly as, “Extend and enhance.” The aphorism covered a lot of ground, but basically it seemed to mean being on the lookout …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 19, 2023
By Habiba Rashid
The suspected Indian state-sponsored group has targeted 61 government, military, law enforcement, and other organizations across the Asia-Pacific region.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: SideWinder Behind Govt P… Continue reading SideWinder Behind Govt Phishing Spree Across the East
So, maybe right now isn’t the best time to get into the high-altitude ballooning hobby? At least in the US, which with the downing of another — whatever? — over …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 12, 2023
Convincing email-credentials phishing, emailed backdoors and mobile apps are all part of the groups latest effort against military and government targets. Continue reading SideWinder APT Targets Nepal, Afghanistan in Wide-Ranging Spy Campaign
Watch out! If you have any of the below-mentioned file managers and photography apps installed on your Android phone—even if downloaded from the official Google Store store—you have been hacked and being tracked.
These newly detected malicious Androi… Continue reading 3 Google Play Store Apps Exploit Android Zero-Day Used by NSO Group
The Sidewinder line was a series of gaming peripherals produced by Microsoft, starting in the 1990s. After some initial stumbles, several cutting edge joysticks were released, at a time when the home computer market was in a state of flux, transitioning from legacy interfaces like serial and parallel to the more modern USB. In this interim period, Sidewinder joysticks used a special method to communicate digitally over the game port interface, which more typically used a kludge to read joysticks in an analog manner. [MaZderMind] managed to reverse engineer this protocol, and implemented the interface on an AVR microcontroller.
The …read more
Continue reading Interfacing The Sidewinder Joystick to AVRs