Category: Cyberwar

what if – instead of security – Google wants mass surveillance and a direct uplink to the US-Pentagon to blow all “terrorists” (basically anyone who is against Google) to hell? What if? as long as EVIL pays off (incentive) this […]

The Great A.I. Awakening: A Conversation with Eric Schmidt Feb 23, 2017 as user might have noticed, the battle Amazon vs Microsoft who will get the $10Billion DoD cloud computing contract is still hot. And maybe the contract is split. […]

SecurityLab, [04.06.20 15:05] The Chinese-language cybercrime group Cycldek (also known as Goblin Panda or Conimes) has developed the malicious tool USBCulprit to carry out attacks on physically isolated systems and steal confidential data. Cycldek APT has developed a malware for […]

guess with it-security and internet-security (internet = roads, cars = computers that users use every day) it is like with real-life-security – there is no 100% security. all users of a system are in constant potential danger of having an […]

this is why high quality journalism and education are sooooo important: trust is so important & journalism should be about truth and trust context: media outlets that use numbers out of context (do those numbers apply to the US, or […]

1984 mass surveillance: for a better world? as people might have noticed: privacy is survival critical when a state becomes tyranny. WARNING! violent and disturbing! but highly recommend to anyone to watch it – at least once – the “middle […]

SecurityLab, [26.03.20 08:10] The largest free hosting provider on the darknet, Daniel’s Hosting, was hacked for the second time in 16 months, and stopped working on Wednesday, March 25. Unknown attackers deleted the entire database of the hosting provider, as […]

SecurityLab, [24.03.20 08: 05] Cybercriminals hack Windows PCs through a previously unknown vulnerability in the Adobe Type Manager library (atmfd.dll) used by the operating system to process PostScript type 1 fonts. Microsoft described attacks exploiting this vulnerability as “targeted” and […]

No. 1 Emotet — 36 026 samples Trojan was first discovered 2014 and was used to intercept data transferred via a secure connection. We will remind, in September of this year Emotet came back to life after 4 months of […]

apologize! games = windows, still ? (although there are 6000 steam games running on linux) the very first “Open Source GPU” is in the making: https://www.crowdsupply.com/libre-risc-v/m-class “The Libre RISC-V M-Class is a RISC-V chip that is libre-licensed to the bedrock. […]

SecurityLab, [25.11.19 15:44] The Creator of the world wide web Tim Berners-Lee (Tim Berners-Lee) presented an action plan to protect the network from political manipulation, fake news, privacy violations and other harmful influences. Tim Berners-Lee: “control of information is hugely […]

SecurityLab, [22.11.19 08:23] French company Edenred reported a cyberattack using malware that affected an unknown number of computer systems. The company has launched an investigation to determine the extent of the contamination. Payment solution provider Edenred has been the victim […]

new Russian IT Security updates: thanks to https://www.securitylab.ru/ and https://translate.yandex.com/   SecurityLab, [06.11.19 16:12] The Libarchive compression library, which is included by default in Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Arch Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD distributions, contains a vulnerability that allows an attacker […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRt2VYjAy4c 2013: just in case if anyone was asking if the DARPA Robot challenge was for helping mankind in space… well… that and other things. 2017: the Russians have their robot challenge as well, further fueling the arms race (spending […]

SecurityLab, [01.11.19 15:21] Google has released fixes for two vulnerabilities in Chrome, including a zero-day vulnerability exploited in real-world attacks. The issues are fixed in browser version 78.0.3904.87 for Windows, Mac and Linux, and users are strongly advised to install […]

A lot of things are not “Rocket Science” but Rocket Science is Rocket Science, which means: it involves solving a lot of technical problems. And just as in car racing… things are fast dangerous and sometimes crash… which gives it […]

BitPaymer attack has blocked the work of the industrial giant Pilz one of the largest manufacturers of industrial automation tools Pilz GmbH & Co. KG Type GmbH & Co. KG Industry Automation technology Founded 1948 Headquarters Ostfildern , Germany Revenue […]

Another reason to NOT trust EVERY human task to machines… unless one wants to get killed by a robot dressed up as dinosaur. “great” X-D “Japanese travel agent H. I. S. Group ignored warnings about a vulnerability in its Tapia […]

  update: Emotet trying to spread by WIFI since 2018 https://thehackernews.com/2020/02/emotet-malware-wifi-hacking.html BUT ALSO VIA PDF! on the heise security conference last year was said: Virus Scanners since around 10 years are not sufficient anymore. (heise a computer focused news outlet […]

what IT can learn from nature: (src) mostly US users affected. Big Business: Big Companies and Big Money can afford Big Staff to maintain and secure their products, but they also provide Big Infrastructure (AWS, Office) and thus a single […]

THE ECB BIRD WAS HACKED! “however, the internal system of the Bank has not been compromised” the site http://www.banks-integrated-reporting-dictionary.eu/ was taken offline. It is fascinating. The Europeans probably do not even know about “what is going on” and according to ex […]

“Linux desktop remains an unpopular choice among mainstream desktop users, making up a little more than 2% of the desktop operating system market share. This is in contrast to the web server market share, which consists of 70% of Linux-based operating systems. […]

Capitalism inspires the short sighted incentives. But trust and honesty is key in long term relationships. So for a short period of time – some dishonest people might enjoy the benefits – but in the end – it comes home […]

don’t be evil “Google controls about 62% of mobile browsers, 69% of desktop browsers, and the operating systems on 71% of mobile devices in the world. 92% of internet searches go through Google and 73% of American adults use YouTube. […]

it might sound strange… and even if it sucks, but if you are concerned about security, call me paranoid but: your company’s critical infrastructure SHALL NOT BE REACHABLE BY WIFI! (especially not if you are running a nuclear power plant, […]

servers/clients/computers/programs/services/webservers need accurate time… they usually get it from time servers that have an atomic clock attached to their USB port. (just guessing) ping time.google.com PING time.google.com (216.239.35.4) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from time2.google.com (216.239.35.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=43.5 […]

Pwn2Own 2020: opening a pdf can be enough to compromise system! https://youtu.be/u1udr7j9MQA?t=359 thank you ccc you are doing a lovely work – make this planet more interesting by creativity and more informed about security 🙂 keep it up 🙂 https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/gpn/gpn19/h264-hd/gpn19-45-eng-BADPDF_-_Stealing_Windows_Credentials_via_PDF_Files_hd.mp4 […]

Update: 2020.03 “The newly developed Rowhammer- attack TRRespass can crack the RAM-a security mechanism by many DDR4-DRAM-modules as well as LPDDR4 Chips. Until now, these were considered to be almost immune to Rowhammer attacks.” https://www.com-magazin.de/news/sicherheit/software-hammer-ram-schutz-attackiert-2515621.html Update: 2019.10 Zombieload is back. […]

scroll down for ENGLISH: ) OMG! Da die IT von Baltimore sich einen Ransome-Virus eingefangen hat, können die Bürger ihre Steuern und ihre Blitzer-Tickets nicht zahlen! Wunderbar! 🙂 Mit welchem Aufwand man rechnen muss, wenn man sich von der Digitalisierung […]

google’s security lab “project zero“ has made itself a name. (you can subscribe to their rss feed with thunderbird.) Posted by Ben Hawkes, Project Zero (team lead) (2019-05-15) Project Zero’s team mission is to “make zero-day hard”, i.e. to make […]