Big Trouble Behind the Great Wall
Someone behind the Great Firewall was enthusiastic enough to brag about his tremendous creativity while working for Shanghai Police and posted some scripts online to…
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The People’s Republic Collects International Call Logs. Yes, Hacking is Involved.
Lately a few int’l organizations and national authorities warned telcos that a PRC-linked team targets them. The reason, this time, is not snooping hi-tec industrial…
All Citizens of Argentina Have Their Data Stolen
In what presumably is a World first, the complete ID card database of Argentina has been copied / leaked / put up for sale. The…
SIM swap & Port-Out Fraud Techniques are Targeted by FCC
The Federal Communications Commission of the U.S.A. seeks to implement a legal obstacle to the common SIM swapping and port-out attacker TTPs that usually target…
Crossing a Treshold: Data of 2 Million Persons on a Terrorist Watchlist Leaked
We don’t even get our heads up anymore when we read that a whopping HUNDRED MILLION US citizens’ personal data is leaked and is now…
Unprecedented Governmental Data Breach Rocks Belarus
The largest cyber heist since the 2015 hack of the US Department of Personnel Management (when 20+ million records of US federal employees got stolen)…
The hack-anything mouse & keyboard combo
Whatever system you are using, if it is having some sort of data input interface, an external power supply and potentially a connection to the…
Tesla Autopilot AI Could Be Tricked to Slow Down by the Moon
A funny video is in the circulation, where you could see the Tesla Autopilot mistaking the moon for a blinking yellow traffic light, consequently trying…
Taking over planes and ships via satellite comms
Ships and aircraft of civvie and military owners are often equipped with satellite communication systems, enabling the crew to send and receive messages or orders,…
Not funny at all: nuclear agency breached – and then tried to hush things up
A rather usual (well, nowadays, that is) and successful hacking op took place in May that targeted South Korea’s nuclear research institution, KAERI. The initial…
One-time pad: the only unbreakable encryption
Using one-time pad encryption is employing an equation with two unknowns, one of which is truly random – and henceforth making the equation mathematically unsolvable….