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We always think of hacking as having purely digital effects. But what about the reality of a hacker making a device cause damage to its surroundings? These types of real-world damages are becoming more widespread throughout the world of hacking today: coalfire.com/The-Coalfire-B…

Another quality product from Apple. Zero days found in Safari allow for access to the webcam. We trust that popular browsers will protect us and not allow access to the computer as a whole, right? I thought mac's were unhackable! (source: Top Men) ryanpickren.com/webcam-hacking

Genius. They wrote a script to make a PDF look like it's printed, signed, and then scanned again. Because digital signatures are still not accepted in many places while a signed and scanned printout is. This is hacking bureaucracy. I love it! gitlab.com/edouardklein/f…

Many people are now working at home. This means that phishing attacks will be on the rise. We all know that to defend against an enemy, the must think like them. So here is a helpful guide on how to spear phish targets. @c.andrewlong/the-totally-legitimate-guide-to-spearphishing-and-whaling-81729b94d713" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@c.andrewlong/…

With the rise of online meetings, zoom has taken the place as the facilitator of important talks and conferences. However is it truly safe? Or is rise of online meetings a delight to cyber-criminals everywhere? citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-f…

Even with the advent of a global pandemic, hackers will still use anything to try and trick people using phishing attacks. Thankfully we have top men on the case, taking down the domains as they appear. swimlane.com/blog/identify-…

Microsoft have just found out that a RCE vulnerability exists in every Windows OS, mostly affecting Windows 8.1 and below. Who knows how long this exploit has been used to gain access to Windows systems? portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security…

⚠️ WARNING! All versions of #Microsoft Windows (7, 8.1, 10, Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019) operating systems contain 2 new font parsing library RCE vulnerabilities that are: —CRITICAL —UNPATCHED —Under active ZERO-DAY attacks Details ➤ thehackernews.com/2020/03/window… #cybersecurity

Relevant to this week's case study. The Tesla isn't completely electronically controlled, but even with its current digital integration, hackers have already found out how to mess with turn signals, GPS, the speedometer and more. Good thing they fixed it. safekeepsecurity.com/about/cve-2020…

Found this article about an exploit that allows users to privilege escalate in the Avast secure browser. If you can't trust an anti-virus company to properly design their browsers, who can you trust? sidechannel.tempestsi.com/vulnerability-…

Interesting article about hackers inserting malware into hacking tools. This just shows that even hackers themselves are in danger of being hacked! cybereason.com/blog/whos-hack…

Meltdown is back with a vengeance! youtube.com/watch?v=baKHSX… Discovery + paper lviattack.eu LTT forum discussion linustechtips.com/main/topic/116… @comp6441 #comp6441

Recently, AWS S3 and many other cloud hosting services were found to be vulnerable to homoglyph domain registrations that are commonly used in phishing attacks (yahoo.com vs www.yɑhoo.com). soluble.ai/blog/public-di…

Bit of old news, but its cool to see how one small flaw in the design of a ticketing system can allow anyone to join an internal slack space. medium.com/intigriti/how-…

Recently the Puerto Rico Government was scammed out of $2.6 Million via a phishing attack. Just goes to show that even large scale attacks rely on the simple principle of violating trust. Any emails asking for details or money should be scrutinised; spamtitan.com/blog/phishing-…

Sad to see that SQL Injection is still a problem in such a large library as Django. Good thing it was fixed, but just think of all of the other entry points that haven't been found in similar sized libraries; blog.manageupdates.com/exploits/pytho…

Ask and apparently your security questions will be answered... twitter.com/LilianUnsw/sta…

@comp6441 interesting fact about counterfeit notes, most software / printers / scanners have a mechanism which stops them working with bank notes in some way en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_co… #comp6441