The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Cyberwar Is the New Yellowcake, Fueling a Cybersecurity-Industrial Complex
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/yellowcake-and-cyberwar/
We do have a “Cybersecurity-Industrial Complex” exactly like the military industrial complex with the revolving door between the government and the companies sucking on its tits. However, the problem potential …
10K Reasons to Worry About Critical Infrastructure
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/10000-control-systems-online/
Whether our nation will be plunged into the stone age at the behest of a nation state, terrorists or bored hackers, it is simply a matter of time before it happens. Granted …
HP printer loophole permits data harvesting
http://www.slashgear.com/hp-printer-loophole-permits-data-harvesting-or-self-destruct-29198636/
It seems you can not only get copies of every document printed, but set the printer on fire as well!…
I was reading this interesting article:
Infosec: The World’s Largest Rube Goldberg Device
https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/18168-Infosec-The-Worlds-Largest-Rube-Goldberg-Device.html
when in the comments I saw this: “Teotwawki”. I Googled it and lo and behold, this is the answer:
…The End Of The World As We
http://www.slashgear.com/hacker-shows-how-to-hack-insulin-pumps-at-black-hat-conference-05169762/
When we all get brain implants, those will be hacked as well. Then we really won’t know if we are in the matrix or not……
The quest for an unhackable code
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/02/technology/unhackable_code/index.htm?source=cnn_bin&hpt=hp_bn5
I started to study cryptography quite a few years ago (more than 15) and very quickly came to the realization that ‘unbreakable’ codes are meaningless because it is so trivial to hack the …
E-mail typos result in 20GB of stolen data
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/09/09/email.typos.stolen.data.wired/
“The e-mails they collected included one that listed the full configuration details for the external Cisco routers of a large IT consulting firm, along with passwords for accessing the devices. Another …
Just in case you thought there were any vestiges of privacy left…
Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying
By harnessing the vast wealth of publicly available cloud-based data, researchers are taking facial recognition technology to unprecedented levels
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/09/cloud-powered-facial-recognition-is-terrifying/245867/
Couple this with …
Computer virus hits U.S. drone fleet
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/10/tech/innovation/virus-hits-drone-fleet-wired/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6
And the geniuses are not even sure if it was specifically targeted or just happened to coincidentally infect from the Internet.
I am starting to take the doomsday scenarios about China having our …