FBI Director Wants To Talk Like Adults On Backdooring Encryption

FBI director James Comey is currently gathering enough evidence so that he is able to get America to talk in an ‘adult’ manner in 2017 over breaking encryption.

He spoke at Tuesday’s 2016 Symantec Government Symposium in Washington. He went on speaking about his obsession over strong cryptography that causes the criminals to mostly go under the dark which makes them harder to catch.

Comey will resume his push to force many technology companies to attack their products so that this time they will be armed with supporting documents over the breaches.

Read more http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/31/fbi_wants_adult_conversation_about_backdoors/

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GFI Prime Brings More Value to Customers by Providing Additional Products and Value for Free

Loyalty programs are often full of great benefits for existing customers, but how many of them have you seen giving valuable software products for free in addition to the purchased ones? None? It’s time for you to meet GFI Prime.

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68 million passwords were dumped online in recent Dropbox hack

Earlier this week, Dropbox suffered a hack and had its users force reset passwords that it claims were stolen in a 2012 breach. The following message was given to the users.

Our security teams are always watching out for new threats to our users. As part of these ongoing efforts, we learned about an old set of Dropbox user credentials (email addresses plus hashed and salted passwords) that we believe were obtained in 2012.

Our analysis suggests that the credentials relate to an incident we disclosed around that time

If you haven’t logged in on Dropbox, you will have to change your passwords. Furthermore, if you started using Dropbox before mid 2012, you should also reset your password.

The hack was so big that a file was obtained sized around 5GB which contained the details of 68,680,741 accounts.

Read more https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/08/31/dropbox-hack-leads-to-68-million-passwords-dumped-online/

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Mr Robot & A “Dream Device For Hackers”

Have you been watching Mr. Robot on USA? Great show and you can get on Amazon. Elliot is a great character and there are a lot of twists and turns. Some of it is cheezy, but hey what television shows don’t have some cheez to it!

#fsociety is always coming up with sneaky ways to penetrate and a main one has been via connected devices.

I love the term PWN Phone and Elliot’s “dream device for a pentester” is used to run a custom script to PWN another phone.  Want one? Check out https://store.pwnieexpress.com/product-category/sensors/

So PwNIE Express is actually giving away  Mr. ROBOT phone. You gotta check it out https://www.pwnieexpress.com/mr-robot-pwn-phone

All I can say is check out the company and how they feel about “hacking”, “testing”, etc….

There are so many exploits out there today and if you watch Mr. Robot you might just get some ideas

QUIZ: What does Elliot do with it? Beuller…. Beuller… leave your answer in the comments below for a chance to win a PWN Phone….

You can’t not like the character of Elliot, but where will the show take us?

Which episode has been your favorite so far?

 

 

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A new cloud attack can take full control of virtual machines with virtually no effort put in

The world of IT has just witnessed the most unsettling attack resulting from the rowhammer exploit. The exploit can flip individual bits in the memory of a computer.

The technique is so precise that it can allow a single machine to start stealing data from other machines that are hosted on the same cloud.

Until now, the Rowhammer exploit was considered a clumsy attack tool because it wasn’t really good enough to control where the data corrupting bits happened on a machine. Up till now, this attack was only considered a glitch until recently.

It is now capable of manipulating deduplication operations that are very common amongst cloud hosts to save memory.

Read more details http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/new-attack-steals-private-crypto-keys-by-corrupting-data-in-computer-memory/

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Hack Brief: 4-Year-Old Dropbox Hack Exposed 68 Million People’s Data

Dropbox had a security "incident" in 2012, but the true scale and severity of that hack is only now coming to light. The post Hack Brief: 4-Year-Old Dropbox Hack Exposed 68 Million People's Data appeared first on WIRED.

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Forget Software—Now Hackers Are Exploiting Physics

An emerging form of hacking techniques targets the fundamental physical properties of computation. The post Forget Software—Now Hackers Are Exploiting Physics appeared first on WIRED.

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