It’s one thing when malware attacks your phone, but it’s another when that same malware hops over to your PC and then uses it to listen in on all your conversations on top of just messing with your phone. A newly discovered Android app—one that’s in the Google Play store— can do just that . Beware. More »
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Terrifying Android Malware Hacks Your PC and then Eavesdrops On You With Its Microphone
The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is a beast. It’s the first of the new Ford-class supercarriers, and arguably the best aircraft carrier ever designed . And building these mammoths is a serious undertaking. More »
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This Is How You Build a Ford-Class Supercarrier
Spaceships can’t pull in foreign objects with a almost-magical tractor beam yet, but researchers have been making progress towards that goal. Scientists have now shown that tractor beams are possible, and can actually work . For microscopic objects over microscopic distances at least. More »
Sometimes it seems like no one’s keeping your data safe; this is one of those times. A hacker just leaked 300,000 Verizon customer records , and that’s only a sample of the 3 million he claims to have gotten in his little raid. More »
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Hacker Leaks 300,000 Verizon Customer Records and Claims to Have Millions More
You may recall that Amazon was implicated as the weak link in the Mat Honan iCloud hack , wherein a gadget blogger had his entire online identity nuked from orbit because Amazon gave up the secondary identifying information necessary to issue a password reset over at Apple. (The last four of your credit card, incidentally.) I’m sad to say that Amazon has clearly not improved their authentication protocols in any meaningful way, but this time it’s hurting them directly. More »
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Amazon Has Another Huge Security Hole
chicksdaddy writes “A presentation at the Passwords^12 Conference in Oslo, Norway (slides), has moved the goalposts on password cracking yet again. Speaking on Monday, researcher Jeremi Gosney (a.k.a epixoip) demonstrated a rig that leveraged the Open Computing Language (OpenCL) framework and a technology known as Virtual Open Cluster (VCL) to run the HashCat password cracking program across a cluster of five, 4U servers equipped with 25 AMD Radeon GPUs communicating at 10 Gbps and 20 Gbps over Infiniband switched fabric. Gosney’s system elevates password cracking to the next level, and effectively renders even the strongest passwords protected with weaker encryption algorithms, like Microsoft’s LM and NTLM, obsolete. In a test, the researcher’s system was able to generate 348 billion NTLM password hash checks per second. That renders even the most secure password vulnerable to compute-intensive brute force and wordlist (or dictionary) attacks. A 14 character Windows XP password hashed using LM for example, would fall in just six minutes, said Per Thorsheim, organizer of the Passwords^12 Conference. For some context: In June, Poul-Henning Kamp, creator of the md5crypt() function used by FreeBSD and other, Linux-based operating systems, was forced to acknowledge that the hashing function is no longer suitable for production use — a victim of GPU-powered systems that could perform ‘close to 1 million checks per second on COTS (commercial off the shelf) GPU hardware,’ he wrote. Gosney’s cluster cranks out more than 77 million brute force attempts per second against MD5crypt.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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New 25-GPU Monster Devours Strong Passwords In Minutes
Some Tumblr users are seeing their pages replaced with several dozen duplicate posts from a known hacker group, warning that deleting said message will delete the Tumblr page in question (it’s unclear if this is actually true, but seems to be false in our testing). Tumblr confirmed the ongoing issue to us this morning, and warned users who’ve seen the message to “please log out of all browsers that may be using Tumblr,” as that’s one way the “viral post” is being spread. The message from the group is aimed at the wide world of “bloggers,” and insists Tumblr users should take their own lives. Tumblr says its team is “working to resolve the issue as swiftly as possible,” though there is no timeline for when it’ll be fixed. In the meantime, we suggest changing your Tumblr password (though there’s no indication that passwords were necessarily taken, or any other personal information) and staying away from the site until the all clear is given. Thus far, it doesn’t seem that any previously written posts have been deleted, but simply pushed dramatically far down the timeline by a deluge of duplicate posts. We’ll update this post as we learn more. Update: A Tumblr rep tells us, “Tumblr engineers have resolved the issue of the viral post attack that affected a few thousand Tumblr blogs earlier today.” The sites we were seeing affected earlier seem to have returned to normal. Filed under: Networking , Internet , Software , Mobile Comments Source: GNAA.eu
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Hacker group rewriting Tumblr pages into a racist, anti-gay screed (update: Tumblr says it’s fixed)
It seems the rumors of e-ink based displays’ imminent death at the hands of tablets were greatly exaggerated. Despite a glut of portable color screen devices now on the market, e-book readers are more popular than ever, and a company called ZBD Solutions now wants to use the e-ink technology as easily updateable store signage. More »
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In Saudi Arabia, if a woman leaves the country, her husband or male “guardian” will receive a text message to let him know that, even if she’s traveling with him, ho boy! His woman is on the loose. Saudi Arabia: where technology and misogyny unite! More »
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Saudi Arabian Men Now Get Text Alerts When Their Women Leave the Country
After the US and Israel cooked up Stuxnet—a potent cyber weapon aimed at Iran’s nuclear facilities—whenever a virus targets Iran, it could be something major. This time around, the web threat wants to erase Iranian banks . More »
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New Money-Destroying Virus Attacks Iran