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Two Years Later, Vision Scientists Are Still Studying the Dress

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Daniel Oberhaus

Yes, that dress. Continue reading Two Years Later, Vision Scientists Are Still Studying the Dress→

NYU Students Apply Blockchain Solution to Electronic Voting Security

Posted on December 9, 2016 by Michael Mimoso

A team of New York University students architected a permissioned blockchain system called Votebook that could be applied to secure electronic voting. Their solution was the winning entry of the Cybersecurity Case Study Competition sponsored by Kaspers… Continue reading NYU Students Apply Blockchain Solution to Electronic Voting Security→

Israeli Online Attack Service ‘vDOS’ Earned $600,000 in Two Years

Posted on September 8, 2016 by BrianKrebs

vDOS — a so-called “booter” service that has earned in excess of $600,000 over the past two years helping customers coordinate more than 150,000 so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks designed to knock Web sites offline — has been massively hacked, spilling secrets about tens of thousands of paying customers and their targets.

The vDOS database, obtained by KrebsOnSecurity.com at the end of July 2016, points to two young men in Israel as the principle owners and masterminds of the attack service, with support services coming from several young hackers in the United States.

The vDOS database, obtained by KrebsOnSecurity.com, points to two young men in Israel as the principle owners and masterminds of the attack service, with support services coming from several young hackers in the United States.