Old Androids Never Die, They Just Have A Few Screws Loose
Glad I GTFO'd the karate school's site before this happened. GoDaddy is actively trash, not simply due to their tendency to aggressively "update" their user's sites into non-functionality, but also their lack of security care, and their defense of neo-nazi Mastodon instances (in conjunction with CloudFlare, who nearly always refuses to take action, unless there […]
The source of Twitter's utility is its advertising algorithm, its ability to put words in front of people who are interested in things - but not interested enough to actively seek those things out, and who might not even know what to search for. It's easy to throw a few search terms into Google, but […]
Genshin Impact is a huge money-maker, but their kernel-based anticheat system has a vulnerability that's being used to spread malware. Taking the game down, especially right after a new release with added playable characters would cost Hoyoverse millions of dollars, and Microsoft has not revoked the certificate for the kernel anti-cheat driver. When corporations weigh […]
Today has been a nasty week. Between a two-day running argument with a group calling themselves "Anarcho-Capitalists" ending in the revelation that a rape victim in their utopia would have to self-fund her own justice, and listening to someone I normally trust go hardline-centrist for no apparent reason, I am mentally exhausted already. This "ancap" […]
TL;DR, not hard at all, really - there are plenty of places to physically hack a system, and plenty of tiny microcontrollers that can do the job. Thing is, it was already possible anyway... Source: Hardware Implants • SecuringHardware.com
Shodan 2000 HOLES, GLORIOUS HOLES
Over 17000 Mac Machines Affected by 'iWorm' Botnet Malware. The only thing this worm CAN'T do is bend your iPhone, but your ass is more than capable of doing that without worms. ;)
What the hell was up these last few days?? It's seemed like one exploit after another, between the bash exploit, the problems at Acme, and my own network intrusion. Talk about damaging and embarassing! :( At least CC wasn't affected. It was just one old system I used to update my phone firmware - which […]
Recently there have been many articles posted about the level of "realism" in the game Watch_Dogs and whether or not the things that happen in the game are possible. Unfortunately, most of the discussion has been about weaponized hacking - the stoplight changing and electric-junction-blowing over the top stuff, rather than the parts that are […]