Hacking starbucks for unlimited credit
by Egor Homakov This is a story about how I found a way to generate unlimited amount of money on Starbucks gift cards to get life-time supply of coffee or steal a couple of $millions. read more
Surveillance system used for censorship in Europe
Censorship attack combines packet injection and Heartbleed We all know there is censorship online. It happens in China. It happens to “terrorists”. But we don’t believe it will happen to us. As Eben Moglen and Kaspersky have pointed out, companies developing crypto are prime targets no matter where they are. So you don’t have to […]
Hard disk hacking
Hard disks: if you read this, it’s pretty much certain you use one or more of the things. They’re pretty simple: they basically present a bunch of 512-byte sectors, numbered by an increasing address, also known as the LBA or Logical Block Address. The PC the HD is connected to can read or write data […]
More Than 162,000 WordPress Sites Used for Distributed Denial of Service Attack
Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks are becoming a common trend on our blog lately, and that’s OK because it’s a very serious issue for every website owner. Today I want to talk about read more
Newegg trial: Crypto legend takes the stand, goes for knockout patent punch
“Late post ,I know” -Ed [NP: Vinnie Paz – Bushmaster Music feat. Blaq Poet & Lateb (produced by Stu Bangas] MARSHALL, TX—Newegg’s courtroom face-off with patent-licensing giant TQP Development is nearing its end. TQP has sued hundreds of companies, saying it has patented the common Web encryption scheme… more
A breakthrough in AI solves CAPTCHAs better than most humans
You’ve surely seen it before: a garbled string of letters and numbers that you retype before leaving a comment on a blog post. It’s a test called CAPTCHA, or Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, and it exists to separate the flesh-and-blood folks from the spambots. A test so simple […]
OS X Passwords Leaked During Login
I was writing a script today to automatically mount shared folders for our users when they log in. I wanted the script to wait for the desktop to appear before it runs, … [read more]
UFC Just Sent the Most Embarrassing DMCA Notice Ever
We’ve seen dozens of erroneous DMCA takedown notices in recent years, many of which have caused their senders embarrassment. However, notices sent to Google l… [read more]
[cryptography] skype backdoor confirmation
I was disappointed the rumoured skype backdoor is claimed to be real, and that they have evidence. The method by which they confirmed is kind of odd – not only is skype eavesdropping but its doing head requests on SSL sites that have urls pasted in the skype chat! read more
“Frost” Attack Unlocks Android Phones’ Data By Chilling Their Memory In A Freezer
If you lose possession of an Android phone, your PIN or pattern unlock might not be enough to protect the sensitive data stored on it. Not, at least, after it’s spent an hour in a hacker’s freezer. Read more
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