Cracking Wi-Fi passwords, spoofing accounts, and testing networks for exploits is all fun enough, but if you want to take the show on the road, you’ll want an easily portable rig. Enter Kali Linux and the Raspberry Pi. Source: How to Build a Portable Hacking Station with a Raspberry Pi and Kali Linux
There is a lot of this on the internet but I’m not sure it’s true as it’s all based on something that was posted on a telcos site and removed, so all the sources link to a google cache site. It’s not clear how this would be implemented and whether users would somehow be forced Read more about Kazakhstan may enact law to install false national security certificate on PCs – brouhaha[…]
Kiwi hacker Lachlan Temple has found holes in a popular cheap car tracking and immobilisation gadget that can allow remote attackers to locate, eavesdrop, and in some cases cut the fuel intake to hundreds of thousands of vehicles, some while in motion. the flaws allow attackers who log into any account — including a universal Read more about Hundreds of thousands of engine immobilisers hackable over the net[…]
Transport and energy companies will have to ensure that the digital infrastructure that they use to deliver essential services, such as traffic control or electricity grid management, is robust enough to withstand cyber-attacks, under new rules provisionally agreed by internal market MEPs and the Luxembourg Presidency of the EU Council of Ministers on Monday. […] Read more about First ever EU rules on cybersecurity[…]
WordPress hosting outfit WP Engine has confessed to a security breach, prompting it to reset 30,000 customers’ passwords. Security firm Trend Micro has also warned that The Independent newspaper’s WordPress-based blog section has been compromised Source: WordPress hosting biz confesses to breach, urgently contacts 30,000 users