At Planet, we’ve been pursuing Mission 1: to image the entire Earth’s landmass every day. I couldn’t be more excited to announce that we have achieved our founding mission.Six years ago, our team started in a garage in Cupertino. Mission 1 was the north star: we needed to build the satellites and systems, secure the Read more about Planet now images the entire Earth’s landmass every day[…]
Our Asgardia-1 satellite was launched successfully today from the Wallops launch site in Virginia, USA.Dr Igor Ashurbeyli, Asgardia’s Head of Nation, accompanied by members of his administration personally witnessed the launch.We are delighted to announce therefore that the Asgardia space kingdom has now established its sovereign territory in space.Congratulations to all Asgardians! Source: Asgardia – Read more about Asgardia – The Space Nation launches first independent territory into space[…]
NDA’s or confidentiality agreements are a fact of life if you’re in business. You’ve probably read tons of them, and you know more or less what you would accept.Of course you can hire a lawyer to review that NDA. And you know they’ll find faults and recommend changes to better protect you.But it’ll cost you, Read more about NDA Lynn: AI screens your NDAs[…]
Bitcoin’s incredible price run to break over $7,000 this year has sent its overall electricity consumption soaring, as people worldwide bring more energy-hungry computers online to mine the digital currency.An index from cryptocurrency analyst Alex de Vries, aka Digiconomist, estimates that with prices the way they are now, it would be profitable for Bitcoin miners Read more about One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses as Much Energy as Your House in a Week[…]
Getting into and hijacking the Management Engine means you can take full control of a box, underneath and out of sight of whatever OS, hypervisor or antivirus is installed. This powerful God-mode technology is barely documented and supposedly locked down to prevent miscreants from hijacking and exploiting the engine to silently spy on users or Read more about Intel’s super-secret Management Engine firmware breached via USB[…]
FireEye’s Innovation and Custom Engineering (ICE) team released a tool today called GoCrack that allows red teams to efficiently manage password cracking tasks across multiple GPU servers by providing an easy-to-use, web-based real-time UI (Figure 1 shows the dashboard) to create, view, and manage tasks. Simply deploy a GoCrack server along with a worker on Read more about Introducing GoCrack: A Managed distributed Password Cracking Tool[…]
There’s a wall of lava lamps in the lobby of our San Francisco office. We use it for cryptography. Here are the nitty-gritty technical details. […] In cryptography, the term random means unpredictable. That is, a process for generating random bits is secure if an attacker is unable to predict the next bit with greater Read more about LavaRand in Production: The Nitty-Gritty Technical Details or How Cloudflare uses a wall of lava lamps to protect the internet[…]
Shaun Bridges, 35, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco after pleading guilty in August to money laundering in the second criminal case to be brought against the former agent, prosecutors said.Bridges, who served in the Secret Service’s Baltimore field office, was sentenced in 2015 to 71 months in prison Read more about Ex-agent in Silk Road probe gets more prison time for bitcoin theft[…]
More than $300m of cryptocurrency has been lost after a series of bugs in a popular digital wallet service led one curious developer to accidentally take control of and then lock up the funds, according to reports.Unlike most cryptocurrency hacks, however, the money wasn’t deliberately taken: it was effectively destroyed by accident. […] On Tuesday Read more about ~$300m of Etherium accidentally lost forever by Parity due to bug[…]
“All of them can be triggered with a crafted malicious USB device in case an attacker has physical access to the machine,” Konovalov said. Konovalov has found a total of 79 Linux USB-related bugsThe 14 flaws are actually part of a larger list of 79 flaws Konovalov found in Linux kernel USB drivers during the Read more about Linux Has a USB Driver Security Problem. 79 of them. Fortunately, they require physical access.[…]
In this paper (Sequential Keystroke Behavioral Biometrics for MobileUser Identification via Multi-view Deep Learning), we propose DEEPSERVICE, a new technique that can identify mobile users based on user’s keystroke information captured by a special keyboard or web browser. Our evaluation results indicate that DEEPSERVICE is highly accurate in identifying mobile users (over 93% accuracy). The Read more about Forget cookies or canvas: How to follow people around the web using only their typing techniques[…]
Forward your scammer emails to Re:scam and here’s what happens. Source: Re:scam The AI bot assumes one of many identities with little mistakes and tries to keep the scammer busy with the email exchange for as long as possible using humor. Which reminds me of http://www.jollyrogertelco.com/ (seems to be down now), which had a number Read more about Re:scam and jolly roger – AI responses to phishing emails and telemarketers[…]