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There is a common refrain among security industry veterans that it is not a matter of if, but when, a breach or other security incident occurs. Protection and prevention are only one slice of the pie when it comes to a holistic security program. Incid… Continue reading Incident Response: 5 Tips to Ensure Your Plan is Ready
No, Hackaday hasn’t become a baking blog. We’re just here to give you a bit of advice: if [MickMake] ever offers you one of his fresh-baked Pis, proceed with caution. While we have no doubt that there will be some interesting smells wafting out of his kitchen, these aren’t the tasty pies you’re looking for. There’s no delicious home-baked treat when that timer dings, just a handful of Raspberry Pis that have had an exceptionally hard day.
To properly explain the odd sight of some Raspberry Pis laid out on a cookie sheet, we need to take a step back. …read more
Continue reading Is Baking a Raspberry Pi the Recipe for Magic Smoke?
[Mathieu Stephan] has something new in the works, and while he isn’t ready to take the wraps off of it yet, he was kind enough to document his experience putting the mysterious new gadget through its paces inside an anechoic chamber. Considering the majority of us will never get inside of one of these rooms, much less have the opportunity to test our own hardware in one, he figured it was the least he could do.
If you’re not familiar with an anechoic chamber, don’t feel bad. It’s not exactly the sort of thing you’ll have at the local makerspace. …read more
As attacks become more sophisticated, penetration testing is becoming a must-have security measure The tactics cybercriminals employ are as clever as they are numerous, and show no signs of slowing down. Unfortunately, an attacker can gain access to y… Continue reading Cybersecurity Best Practices Calls for Penetration Testing
One of the nice things about my new role is that I recently had the pleasure of attending my first Black Hat conference. Now to be completely transparent, I only had an exhibitor pass and I was there primarily to support networking and interactive act… Continue reading DevSecOps: Robservations from Black Hat 2018
You may have asked yourself at one time or another, “Self, what happens when you pass 100 thousand volts through a printed circuit board?” It’s a good question, and [styropyro] put together this fascinating bit of destructive testing to find out.
Luckily, [styropyro] is well-positioned to explore the high-voltage realm. His YouTube stock-in-trade is lasers, ranging from a ridiculously overpowered diode-laser bazooka to a bottle-busting ruby laser. The latter requires high voltage, of course, and his Frankenstein’s lab yielded the necessary components for this destructive diversion. A chopper drives dual automotive ignition coils to step the voltage up to a …read more
Continue reading Perf Board Pyrotechnics Courtesy of a High-Voltage Supply
They claim that the personal data sold could sway colleges’ admission and financial aid decisions. Continue reading Lawsuit Claims the ACT Sells Students’ Disability Data to Colleges
You’d be hard pressed to find an aircraft that wasn’t designed and tested without extensive use of simulation. Whether it’s the classic approach of using a scale model in a wind tunnel or more modern techniques such as computational fluid dynamics, a lot of testing happens before any actual hardware gets bolted together. But at some point the real deal needs to get a shakedown flight, and historically a favorite testing ground has been the massive dry lake beds in the Western United States. The weather is always clear, the ground is smooth, and there’s nobody for miles around.
Thanks …read more
Continue reading Quadcopter Hardware Gets Classic Lake Bed Test
Almost every project of mine from the last quarter century, if it has contained any wiring, has featured somewhere at least one crimp connector. There are a multiplicity of different types of crimp, but in this case I am referring to the ubiquitous variety with a red, blue, or yellow coloured plastic sleeve denoting the wire size they are designed for. They provide a physically robust and electrically sound connection that is resistant to wire fatigue due to vibration, and that can carry hefty currents at high voltages without any problems.
You might expect this to now head off into …read more
Continue reading Putting Crimpers to the Test: How Good Are Our Crimp Tools?
Time is never on your side when you’re onsite with a client and trying to get the first good foothold, with admin privileges, can seem impossible. However, some things seem to work more often than others. One of my current, favorite methods… Continue reading Ever Run a Relay? Why SMB Relays Should Be On Your Mind