Collaborate Disseminate
Students at Oregon State University, Graceland University and Southern Missouri State have all been impacted by email attacks against school employees. Continue reading A Spate of University Breaches Highlight Email Threats in Higher Ed
A gang of payment-card scammers has targeted 201 college and university campus stores, trying to steal students’ financial data in a Magecart-style attack, according to new research. The new cybercrime group, labeled Mirrorthief, injected malicious code on payment checkout pages at hundreds of U.S. and Canadian stores, according to TrendMicro research published Friday. By compromising PrismWeb, an e-commerce platform designed for college stores, the attackers could collect payment card details, names, addresses and phone numbers, researchers said. PrismWeb is made by PrismRBS, a subsidiary of the Nebraska Book Company. TendMicro’s report comes as security researchers continue to grapple with an expansion of payment-card thievery along with an apparent surge in demand for stolen financial information. Success by one group inspires imitators in another. The most prominent, Magecart, is a collection of perhaps 12 hacking campaigns that steal payment information by secretly collecting data from online checkout pages. TrendMicro researchers noted that Mirrorthief is […]
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If you’re too young to remember Battlebots on the television, there are two things that you should know. First is that there are plenty of highlights of this epic robot battle royale on YouTube, and the second is that now there’s an even better version with drones instead of robots …read more
In 1961, FCC Commissioner [Newt Minow] famously described TV as a “vast wasteland.” But TV can do great things; educational programming, news coverage, and great performances do appear, just not all that often. You can draw the same parallels to the Internet. Sure, it’s mostly cat pictures, snarky comments, and posts of what your friends had for dinner. But it can also be a powerful tool, especially for education. Recently, top-name schools and other institutions have posted courses online for everything from Python to Quantum Mechanics to Dutch. The problem is finding these classes and figuring out which ones are …read more
Powering IoT devices is often a question of batteries or mains power, but in rare exceptions to this rule there is no power supply (PDF Warning). At the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of California, San Diego, researchers have gone the extra mile to make advanced backscatter devices, and these new tags don’t need the discrete components we have seen in previous versions. They are calling it LiveTag, and it doesn’t need anything aside from a layer of foil printed or etched on a flexible ceramic-PTEF laminate. PTEF is mostly seen in the RF sector as a substrate for …read more
Be on your guard if your company has received an order which appears to come from a UK university email address.
That’s the advice of Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting service for fraud and financially-motivated cybercrime, after it saw a marke… Continue reading UK university domains spoofed in massive fraud campaign targeting suppliers
A poorly-secured password reset utility allowed a man to access more than 1,000 email accounts at a New York City-area university in a hunt for sexually explicit photographs and videos.
Read more in my article on the We Live Security blog.
Continue reading Jail for man who hacked 1000 student email accounts in search for sexually explicit images
We ran across something interesting on GitHub of all places. The “Open Source Society University” has a list of resources to use if you want to teach yourself computer science for free. We found it interesting because there are so many resources available it can be hard to pick and choose. Of course, you can always pick a track from one school, but it was interesting to see what [Eric Douglas] and contributors thought would be a good foundation.
If you dig down, there are really a few potential benefits from going to college. One is you might learn something …read more
There’s a great deal of research happening around the topic of autonomous vehicles of all creeds and colours. [Ryan] decided this was an interesting field, and took on an autonomous drone as his final project at Cornell University.
The main idea was to create a drone that could autonomously follow a target which provided GPS data for the drone to follow. [Ryan] planned to implement this by having a smartphone provide GPS coordinates to the drone over WiFi, allowing the drone to track the user.
As this was a university project, he had to take a very carefully considered approach …read more
Continue reading Building A Drone That (Almost) Follows You Home
There’s a great deal of research happening around the topic of autonomous vehicles of all creeds and colours. [Ryan] decided this was an interesting field, and took on an autonomous drone as his final project at Cornell University.
The main idea was to create a drone that could autonomously follow a target which provided GPS data for the drone to follow. [Ryan] planned to implement this by having a smartphone provide GPS coordinates to the drone over WiFi, allowing the drone to track the user.
As this was a university project, he had to take a very carefully considered approach …read more
Continue reading Building A Drone That (Almost) Follows You Home
