Collaborate Disseminate
Imagine a movie featuring a scene set in a top-secret bioweapons research lab. The villain, clad in a bunny suit, strides into the inner sanctum of the facility — one …read more Continue reading Sick Beats: Using Music and Smartphone to Attack a Biosafety Room
I understand what SPF does. Since email sending is entirely separate from receiving, there is no automatic way to ensure that the From address on a received email is correct. SFP ensures that the From address in an email is correct by doin… Continue reading What is the purpose of enforcing the existance Sender Policy Framework (SPF) on all inbound emails?
The Microlab 6C are a pretty nice pair of speakers, but [Michał Słomkowski] wasn’t too thrilled with the 8 watts they consume when on standby. The easy fix is to just unplug them when they aren’t in use, but unfortunately the digital controls on the front panel mean he’s got …read more
Continue reading Digispark Spoofs IR To Get Speakers Under Control
When it was released back in 2012, the Basis B1 fitness tracker was in many ways ahead of its time. In fact, the early smartwatch was so impressive that Intel quickly snapped up the company and made it the cornerstone of their wearable division. Unfortunately a flaw in their next …read more
Continue reading Giving Recalled Fitness Trackers a Second Chance
Most e-book readers don’t have physical page turn buttons. Why? They just don’t. Virtual page turns are accomplished with a tap at a screen edge. Determined to reduce the awkwardness of one-handed use, [Sagar Vaze] modified a Kobo e-reader with two physical page turn buttons as a weekend project.
[Sagar] …read more
Continue reading E-Book Reader Gets Page Turn Buttons, Is None The Wiser
Your Wi-Fi routers and access points all have strong WPA2 passwords, unique SSIDs, the latest firmware updates, and even MAC address filtering. Good job, networking and cybersecurity teams! However, is your network truly protected? TL;DR: NO! In this p… Continue reading No One is Safe: the Five Most Popular Social Engineering Attacks Against Your Company’s Wi-Fi Network
A glitch in Auth0 could allow attackers to spoof a legitimate website and collect sensitive information from visitors. Continue reading Auth0 Glitch Allows Attackers to Launch Phishing Attacks
Last week, we looked at how to do Selective Compression on BIG-IP with a local traffic policy so this week let’s try something security related using the same procedures. You can associate a BIG-IP local traffic policy to prevent a spoof of an x-forwarded-for request. This is where bad actors might attempt to thwart security […]
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We hear a lot about patent portfolios when we scan our morning dose of tech news stories. Rarely a day passes without news of yet another legal clash between shady lawyers or Silicon Valley behemoths, either settling spats between multinationals or the questionable activities of patent trolls.
These huge and well-heeled organisations hold many patents, which they gather either through their staff putting in the hard work to make the inventions, or by acquisition of patents from other inventors. It is not often that a large quantity of patents are amassed by any other means, for example by an individual. …read more
