Tag Archives: hacking

Got $60? Reduce your Insurance Rates! Hack Your Car!

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Carmelo

For the low price of $60, Eric Evenchick is selling a gadget that will allow a person to use a CANtact to talk directly to a vehicle’s CAN(controller area network)bus through the laptop, connected via USB to the CANtact device … Continue reading →

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NYPD Auxiliary Officer Hacking into NYPD Computer + FBI Database

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Carmelo

Yehuda Katz, a New York City Police Department (NYPD) Auxiliary Deputy Inspector assigned to the 70th Precinct in Brooklyn, executed a scheme to hack into a restricted NYPD computer and other sensitive law enforcement databases. He was caught and brought … Continue reading →

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Car Updates to Enable Self-Driving

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Carmelo

Rachel Maddow has a video on the self-driving car and how some cars today, already have the basic functionality, and just require the update. What isn’t covered, is how laws and law enforcement will perceive inebriated or sight impaired drivers if … Continue reading →

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Men who Performed the Largest Data Breaches in History: Arrested

Posted on March 7, 2015 by Carmelo

The Department of Justice reports, three men operating from Vietnam, the Netherlands, and Canada are accused of carrying out the largest data breach of names and email addresses in the history of the Internet. Two of the hackers, Viet Quoc … Continue reading →

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Stupidest Movie Hacks

Posted on January 31, 2015 by Carmelo

Dorkly had this posted, it’s worth a good chuckle!

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Under 11 Minutes to Crack WiFi for 7 Year Old

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Carmelo

Seven-year-old Betsy Davis, using only youtube videos for knowledge, was able to find out how to hack the controlled environment’s public WiFi. She set up a rogue access point for a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack, which allowed her to steal data … Continue reading →

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Hacker’s List

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Carmelo

A new service is online where a person posts a problem to solve as a job and another person bids on the work if they know how to solve it. So far, most problems look to be in regards to: … Continue reading →

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Stealing Biometrics & Bypassing Authentication

Posted on January 2, 2015 by Carmelo

Using today’s common high resolution smart phones, it’s possible to remotely enable a camera, and pull someone’s PIN in the reflection of their screen off the user’s eye! This is one of the reasons we shouldn’t install apps, like the … Continue reading →

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The Raspberry Pi: Impact on Hacking

Posted on November 16, 2014 by Carmelo

So, this video is a little old, but very relevant. Sure the Raspberry Pi has been available for some time now, but has the awareness about them spread out of IT and into the minds of the business leaders? Are … Continue reading →

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AirHopper. Keylogging Disconnected Computers.

Posted on November 1, 2014 by Carmelo

AirHopper demonstrates how textual and binary data can be ex-filtrated from physically an isolated computer to mobile phones at a distance of 1-7 meters, with effective bandwidth of 13 to 60 bps. Enough to steal a password. The technology works … Continue reading →

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