Collaborate Disseminate
You’d think that a synthesizer that makes as much noise and sports as many knobs as this one would have more than a dozen transistors on board. Surely the circuit …read more Continue reading Relax and Enjoy This Simple Drone Synthesizer
In 1959, a group of Russian hikers died under mysterious circumstances – and their story, now known as the Dyatlov Pass incident, has intrigued the world ever since. There’s been no shortage of theories about what happened, but none have been able to f… Continue reading Mystery Dyatlov Pass deaths may be explained by new scientific theory
Law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe today unsealed charges against 11 alleged members of the GozNym malware network, an international cybercriminal syndicate suspected of stealing $100 million from more than 41,000 victims with the help of a stealthy banking trojan by the same name. Continue reading Feds Target $100M ‘GozNym’ Cybercrime Network
If you’ve spent any time on hackaday.io, you may have noticed that more than a few denizens of the site are fans of “alternative” electronic logic. Aiming to create digital circuits from such things as relays, vacuum tubes, discrete transistors, and occasionally diodes, they come up with designs that use …read more
Continue reading Help Solve The Single-Transistor Latch Mystery
Apple’s “Don’t mess with Mother (Nature)” video—produced by the Camp4 Collective to promote the iPhone XS—included footage of a man-made avalanche. Continue reading Is It GOOD or BAD to Use a Dynamite-Triggered Avalanche for an Apple Ad? We Asked Scientists
We always enjoy [w2aew’s] videos, and his latest on zener diodes is no exception. In it, he asserts that all Zener diodes are not created equal. Why? You’ll have to watch the video below to find out.
Zener diodes are one of those strange items that have several uses but are not as popular as they once were. There was a time when the Zener was a reasonable way to regulate a voltage inexpensively and easily. Unfortunately the regulation characteristics were not very good, and the power lost was very high. But that was sometimes a reasonable trade, compared to …read more
The prolific hacker behind the Andromeda botnet was brought down by open source intelligence, according to the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. One day after an international collection of law enforcement announced the dismantlement of the long-running Andromeda botnet, researchers say they identified the man arrested in Belarus as the leader behind one of the oldest and widespread botnets in history. Recorded Future identified Sergey Jaretz, a 33-year old male residing in Rechitsa, Belarus as recently arrested by Belarusian authorities as part of the global police effort. Online, he was known as Ar3s but he hasn’t been seen online since November 22. “Ar3s is recognized as a leading expert in malware development and reverse engineering, network security, and antivirus technology,” Recorded Future analysts Andrei Barysevich and Alexandr Solad wrote in a blog post. “On technologically sophisticated forums he acts as a highly reputable guarantor of deals on the one hand, and an analyst on the other. ” Andromeda, […]
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Payments processor TIO Networks identified a security breach that potentially has compromised the personally identifiable information of 1.6 million people. PayPal, which acquired TIO in July for more than $230 million, suspended the company’s op… Continue reading PayPal Subsidiary TIO Networks Suffers Breach Affecting 1.6 Million Users
One of the oldest and widespread botnets in history was shut down last week in an international law enforcement operation led by the FBI. The malware’s infrastructure behind Andromeda was dismantled and one unidentified suspected hacker was arrested in Belarus, according to Europol. First launched in 2011, Andromeda was detected on an average of one million machines every month in the last six months, according to Microsoft. The malware was behind one of the top spam campaigns of 2016, associated with as many as 80 malware families and frequently found on compromised websites and advertising networks. Most notably, Andromeda was used by the Avalanche criminal hacking and fraud network, a global operation illegally bringing in millions of dollars per year until a bust last year. “Andromeda malware has very long history,” researchers at the cybersecurity firm Avast wrote last year. “The authors are skilled programmers and operators, recently updating plugins, maintaining entire systems and looking for new […]
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Threat Intelligence, starting the Avalanche, Sealpath and Boldon James partner on document security classification and protection, and Oracle injects AI into its IoT cloud portfolio. Enterprise News Follow the Money: Threat Intelligence for Financial Institutions Starting the Avalanche: Application DoS In Microservice Architectures SealPath and Boldon James Partner on Document Security Classification & Protection Ping […]
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