Tag Archives: hacking

Should We Buy Credit Monitoring Services?

With the ton of breaches that have been happening, we use one of the credit monitoring services, after this year though and all the breaches going on, one of the first services that is offered to potential victims, is credit … Continue reading

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RFID Skimming

It’s from a few years back. Is this still a vulnerability? Do banks still issue RFID cards? You can still find RFID credit card readers, so I wonder.

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Mid-year 2014 Data Breaches Exposed

2014 is going to replace 2013 as the highest year on record for exposed records, according to Risk Based Security. Mid-year 2014 at a Glance … • There were 1331 incidents reported during the first six months of 2014 exposing … Continue reading

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SecurityNinjaTV DEFCON 22 Car Hacking with Charlie Miller & Chris Valasek

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The CyberVors

A Russian cyber gang over the past several months has breached over 420,000 web and FTP sites to pilfer over 1.2 billion credentials. They are known as the CyberVors (Vors is thief in Russian). They used botnets to scan hundreds … Continue reading

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More James Lyne, Anatomy of an Attack

I really like how passionate James Lyne is about his field. It was a presentation very similar to this that got me intrigued into the security field. It was a Cisco security conference in Tucson where the presenter hacked a … Continue reading

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80s Hacking

Too funny how Hollywood portrayed hacking in the 80s.

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The Anti-Car-Hacking Gadget?

In December of 2013, US Senator Edward Markey sent a letter to car manufacturers in regards to securing vehicles against cyber-attacks. There is a $30 hacking kit that can be used to steal BMW cars and there is a $20 … Continue reading

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The Norse Hacking Map

At this link, you can watch the world hacking map, hosted by Norse. Apparently back in 2012, the United States was getting attacked at least 10,000,000 times a day. Can you imagine what it is now? 20 million? 40 million? … Continue reading

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Smart TV Hacking

@beist from Korea. TVs are never really off, are they? Here are his slides (pdf).

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