Tag: hacking
e544 — Are We Bananas?
This week's episode dives into the latest on AI devices, privacy issues, and tech giants like Apple and Meta. Plus, some fun chats about listening through fruit and the fate of VR.
Can passkeys replace passwords
"Passkeys and the WebAuthn specification were intended to make public key cryptography accessible to average users, rather than just the domain of the tech-savvy. If done right, they could seriously improve security on the Web." @drbruced@aus.social summarises why passkeys are such a good idea in theory and explains where current implementations of the technology fall...
xz, tarred
One of the most common programs in computing history gets nailed by a supply-chain attack—almost exactly a decade after Heartbleed highlighted similar structural weaknesses in the FOSS ecosystem.
Hackintosh In The Pastintosh?
If the Hackintosh ecosystem is about to fade away, it’s because it fulfilled its purpose as a way station between two vastly different eras of Apple.
A hacker’s perspective: social media account takeover prevention guide
"If you watched the SEC Twitter account hack that moved markets yesterday and wondered how to prevent account takeover for your personal, business, or high profile social media account, here's an Account Takeover Prevention Guide for you and/or your organization." @racheltobac@infosec.exchange neatly summarises the steps you should take to prevent the hijacking of your online accounts.
Source Tags & Codes
The saga of the Missouri governor reflects a failure by the powerful to embrace curiosity—curiosity encouraged by the HTML language he fails to understand.
Worst Firmware Update Ever
How Sony screwed up 15 years of goodwill with developers and open-source users by removing Linux support from its console—support hacked back in anyway.
Broken Bells
The evolution of the doorbell, and some spare thoughts inspired by a doorbell malfunction in the middle of the night on a weekend.
Attempting to find unsecured ICE cameras
In which the author attempts and fails to find interesting unsecured webcams near known ICE facilities
Big Brother in your pocket: why your iPhone is leaking your personal details
Hacker group AntiSec: During the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro notebook, used by Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl from FBI Regional Cyber Action Team and New York FBI Office Evidence Response Team was breached using the AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability on Java, during the shell session some files were downloaded from his Desktop folder one of them with the name of "NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv" turned to be a list of 12,367,232 Apple iOS devices including Unique Device
Hacking culture
I've always thought that the term "the cultural sector" was a bit disingenuous, because it makes the assumption that science, engineering and everything else under its umbrella can't for some reason be a part of "culture". Ditto "creatives": it doesn't take much thought to disprove the conceit, but theatre, music, fiction writing and so on are inherently thought of as creative, while fields like software development and structural engineering are not. What a bunch of hooey. So I was proud to be