James Mickens funny and pessimistic talk "Not Even Close: The State of Computer
Security" from NDC June 2015 https://vimeo.com/135347162
OK we get it, cars can be hacked http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/07/ownstar-researcher-hijacks-remote-access-to-onstar/ …
Adblock Plus forum user has a feature request: block commercials on smart TVs.
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/622089615172726784 …
I should have fond memories of GTA IV, but instead it's "Hey cousin, do you want to
go bowling?"
Rad to see Mozilla in on the fun! For Chrome, see https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/2LXKVWYkOus … and https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/security-dev/pnsUO-KxzTs … // @metromoxie https://twitter.com/jruderman/status/585562933914181635 …
Go watch Primer. Do it. It's the only movie you'll still feel like an idiot
watching after 5 times. Seriously. It's amazing.
Facebook Security published a note with some info on Superfish: https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/windows-ssl-interception-gone-wild/1570074729899339 …
David Risney
@David_Risney :“This is the chronicle of the most epic retaliation and how I pranked my roommate with targeted Facebook Ads to the point of complete paranoia and delusion.”
Funny anecdote but also a how-to on creating a Facebook ad campaign that targets a single person.
Mass mailing Internet scams intentionally use poor spelling, grammar etc to filter down to target ignorant audience .
A DEFCON talk “The Secret Life of SIM Cards” that covers running apps on your SIM card. Surprisingly they run a subset of Java and execute semi-independent of the Phone’s OS.
An interesting way to use the report-uri feature of CSP to detect if a user is logged into Google, Facebook etc.
On exploiting security issues in botnet C&C software:
Hackers “are learning that it’s not so easy to write secure code,” Toro says. “Most of us in the business of securing our applications and systems know that bulletproofing software is an extremely expensive and exhaustive undertaking. Malware creators who have to look to their own defences would have to slow down the production of new attacks.”
FYI, if you want to know what it looks like when you hack a hacker, look no further than the seminal 1995 film Hackers.
"A routine request in Florida for records detailing the use of a surveillance tool known as stingray turned extraordinary Tuesday when the U.S. Marshals Service seized the documents before local police could release them."
Also what about the part where the PD reveals that its been using the stingray a bunch without telling any court and blames that on the manufacturer’s NDA.
Google’s XSS training game. Learn how to find XSS issues for fun and profit.
RT @PeerProd In Europe, encrypted traffic went from 1.47% to 6.10%, and in Latin America, it increased from 1.8% to 10.37%
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/sandvine-report/ #NSA
Does it betray my innocence that I’m shocked by the amount of exec($_GET you can easily find on github? Hilarious comment thread on hacker news:
This is awful. Shell commands are not guaranteed to be idempotent, people! These should all be of the form exec($_POST, not exec($_GET.
Should you take the latest security scare seriously? I do, and here is what I am doing about it.
Its time to get a password manager.
Just a quick tutorial on exploiting heartbleed for session hijacking. Is it worse to use https than http today?
If The Matrix was an option, I'd re-up every year.
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