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Amazon's customer service backdoor
As a security conscious user who follows the best practices like: using unique passwords, 2FA, only using a secure computer and being able…
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The most popular blog posts about security & privacy on Hacker News. 279 posts.
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The Dropbox hack is real
Earlier today, Motherboard reported on what had been rumoured for some time, namely that Dropbox had been hacked [http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hackers-stole-over-60-million-dropbox-accounts] . Not just a little bit hacked and not in that "someone has cobbled together a list of credentials that work
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How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac
Update: Dropbox hack blocked by Apple in Sierra Following my post revealing Dropbox’s Dirty Little Security Hack a few weeks ago, I thought I’d look deeper into how Dropbox was getti…
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Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team
[Update (12/14/16): Reuters has specified that the rootkit was implemented as a Linux kernel module. Wow.]
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The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fields
Back in the day when the British had a penchant for conquering the world, they ran into a little problem on the subcontinent; cobras. Turns out there were a hell of a lot of the buggers wandering around India and it also turned out that they were rather venomous which
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Trackers
A couple of weeks ago I went to the local shopping centre looking for a thermometer. After entering one store upon leaving without buying anything a tracker was assigned to me. I didn’t think much of it at first, but he followed me dutifully around the shopping centre, took careful note of how I walked. Whenever I…
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I'm giving up on PGP
After years of wrestling GnuPG with varying levels of enthusiasm, I came to the conclusion that it’s just not worth it, and I’m giving up. At least on the concept of long term PGP keys.
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Why privacy is important, and having “nothing to hide” is irrelevant
The governments of Australia, Germany, the UK and the US are destroying your privacy. Some people don't see the problem...
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Exposing high-end poker cheating devices
This post exposes how real-world highly advanced poker cheating devices work.
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What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone
Two weeks ago, I was on holiday in Turin, Italy and made a boo boo. I forgot my phone in our rental car for a two hour visit to a local…
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Adding a phone number to your Google account can make it less secure
Recently, account takeovers, email hacking, and targeted phishing attacks have been all over the news. Hacks of various politicians, allegedly carried out by Russian hackers, have yielded troves of data. Despite the supposed involvement of state-sponsored agents, some hacks were not reliant on complex zero-day…
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Dropbox Hasn't Learned Their Lesson
You would think less than a month after a very popular HackerNews article on how Dropbox hacks your Mac, the file sharing company would be careful about their software distribution. They just distributed an update that hacks your UI and presents a Yahoo-like banner from 2004.
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Follow the money: Apple vs. the FBI
A lot of people are watching the spectacle of Apple vs. the FBI and the Homeland Security Theatre and rubbing their eyes, wondering why Apple (in the person of CEO Tim Cook) is suddenly the knight in shining armour on the side of consumer privacy and civil rights. Apple, after all, is a goliath-sized corporate…
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The MIT License, Line by Line
171 words every programmer should understand
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Penetration Testing Tools Cheat Sheet
Penetration testing tools cheat sheet, a high level overview / quick reference cheat sheet for penetration testing.
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PayPal 2FA Bypass
Security and Vulnerability Research
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Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer
Rogue cellular infrastructure disguised as office printer Oliver, 2015
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IP Spoofing
The recording and slides are available, but for easier consumption here's a transcript.
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I lost my OpenBSD full-disk encryption password
The other day I set up a new OpenBSD instance with a nice RAID array, encrypted with Full Disk Encryption. And promptly proceeded to forget part of the passphrase.
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Google collects metadata from Android phones
[German]It seems that Google has established a surveillance function for Android phones. They are claiming the right, to collect and store meta data from incoming/outgoing phone calls and SMS from…
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Typosquatting programming language package managers
Edit: It seems that the blog post and the thesis caused quite some interest. Please contact me under the following mail address: admin [|[at]|] incolumitas [[|dot|]] com In this blog post, it is demonstrated how 17000 computers were forced to execute arbitrary code by typosquatting programming language…