Ex Google exec claims to have tech against ad-blockers Not sure how well this will go down (he is even too paranoid to say who his clients are) or if it can be made to work; if they take the piss like that I reckon hackers will write browser extensions to monkey with this software and/or claim to view the ads but send them to /dev/null which will be even worse for the online marketers; also the companies using such techniques to force through ads will be targeted..
Online advertisers have poisoned their own goose, with dodgy ads that cut across content; badly designed/distracting ones or which start up video/audio when unwanted or fill up the screen; and worse have let in malware to unsuspecting users computers.
I've noticed the bulk of ads on here have been removed - TBH when there were the google ads I wondered what idiots selected which ones would appear as I got all sorts of things ranging from mobility aids to a military veterans dating agency; and very little that was of any use to me. I even started to feel a bit sorry for the companies who were having their marketing budget pissed up the wall by a bunch of guffawing Shoreditch hipsters; as this was so badly done
There might have been an ad for Radiospares which reminded me they still existed and I have since become a customer again although I could equally have done so because of a thread on here (it was Cheeseweasel who helped increase the brand visibilty of CPC..) Another ad came up for some antennas which I might have actually had a use for but it disappeared off the screen before I had time to read it (it was on my mobile phone) and like most males over age 30 I do not directly buy things from a mobile phone browser link.
I don't actually know how to - at least in a way that isn't potentially insecure for my card details or risks my card being blocked due to mistyping security codes on a touch screen. I actually use the phone to make telephone calls on; therefore a supplier who has a telephone number and employs people with +1 brain cell to answer it might have a better chance of getting my business.
This shows exactly where the marketing firms are screwing up; if their products are any good ; they are going to be discussed on blogs and forums often with links on how to buy it; and what suppliers are best!
Quite frankly if a lot of tech "news" sites go out of business due to lack of ad revenue thats not a great loss either - most report the same stories and many of the articles are sponsored anyway so are stealth adverts.
The Internet worked in the late 90s/2000s without online ads and only basic online commerce; and we still had the capability to share rich media content (audio and a fair bit of video...)
Ex-Google exec seeks to stamp out ad-blocker software - 19 Jun 2015 - Computing News
yet more flawed Android apps found.. Many of these apps are from big brands too - just as well I only currently use one Android device ( a first generation Tesco branded tablet) which I never use for anything security critical...
Game-over HTTPS defects in dozens of Android apps expose user passwords | Ars Technica UK
EU : Sicherheitstacho (cyber security tachograph) this is from Deutsche Telekom T-Systems. They have set up various honeypots across Europe and are sharing a map of info about who tries to attack them.
Sicherheitstacho.eu
US : Feds search out fibre cutters An unusual incident; fibre optic cable has no scrap value (unlike copper cable); and whoever is doing it would need some knowledge of how the systems are cabled up and what the street furniture looks like. Probably a burned out/disgruntled telecoms engineer...
FBI baffled over wave of nighttime fiber-optic cable vandalism | Ars Technica UK
IL : Israeli boffins get crypto keys from a laptop using off the shelf radio kit I can only just about understand what they are doing; I had always suspected that the RF that a computer leaks out (which is often a nuisance when it gets into radio receivers) contained data that coud be decoded.
You need to be fairly skilled to replicate it; but the equipment required isn't particularly expensive (especially in the second experiment; where the more complex SDR setup was replaced by a cheap €5 China transistor radio!)
The person doing this could be sat a few tables away in a café and could have this equipment hidden away in a bag where it would go unnoticed...
US : researcher barred from flying after exposing potential aircraft vulnerabilities He also claimed to CNN he had connected his laptop to some box under his seat and been able to view the flight management/engine info - although in Europe (and presumably worldwide) a lot of that same info (as well as various other stuff that is useful for air traffic control) is routinely transmitted in unencrypted form on VHF radio frequencies.
you can connect a radio scanner or SDR to your computer and download software to decode it; the app I use even fills up a database with info about the aircraft which it seems to get from Germany; and you can share the info online (I didn't turn that bit on as although Ofcom say its OK to monitor the aircraft you are still responsible for what you do with the info; I personally don't want to risk anyones safety and there are things on there which perhaps should not be widely shared (such as warnings of minor defects with the aircraft); and there is a war on..
TBH I wouldn't connect my laptop to a random port on the same aircraft I was travelling on; at most I'd take a stealth photo of the box and then go ask one of the older chaps on the electronics forums what is did (many of them are ex-RAF) - not surprised he got nicked TBH and I guess he's white American or he'd be in jail still...
United Airlines stopped a prominent security researcher from boarding a California-bound flight late on Saturday, following a social media post by the researcher days earlier that suggested the airline’s onboard systems could be hacked.
The researcher, Chris Roberts, attempted to board a United flight from Colorado to San Francisco to speak at a major security conference there this week, but was stopped by the airline’s corporate security at the gate. Roberts founded One World Labs, which tries to discover security risks before they are exploited.
Roberts had been removed from an earlier United flight on Wednesday by the FBI and questioned for four hours, after jokingly suggesting on Twitter he could get the oxygen masks on the plane to deploy. Authorities also seized his laptop and other electronics.
A lawyer for Roberts said United gave him no detailed explanation on Saturday why he wasn’t allowed on the plane, saying instead the airline would be sending Roberts a letter within two weeks stating why it wouldn’t let him fly on its aircraft.
United Airlines bars security researcher from flight after tweet about hacking | Business | The Guardian
UK : East : "malicious" text sent to troll high school kids part of me thinks this is only minor mischief (provided it was done only by kids within the school, perhaps getting hold of a teachers password) - and things like that weren't even illegal when I was at high school [although only very rich businesspeople had mobiles and they didn't have text messages back then] it would be very worrying if the phone numbers of teenagers had got stolen from the school as far worse people could misuse them.
It wouldn't be a thing I would have done back in the day because I was struggling with the pressure of exams myself too much but realised if I tried to disrupt the school like that I'd have got arrested (especially as in those days kids didn't tell stories about trashing the school; they just went ahead and broke a few windows or set fires); and deep down I knew the school wasn't at fault for the way things were nor were my parents; it was just the govt who were like that. (I'd probably have gone to the revision class anyway as it would be less stress than my Dad hassling me to revise at home!, and a chance to meet friends without being questioned too closely about what I was spending my time doing....)
?Malicious? text message attempts to stop children going to revision classes at Copleston High School - News - Ipswich Star
JP : Mad Japan hacker nicked; after feline accomplice turns him in Apparently the cat was a stray (rather than a family pet) which makes it even more unusual; as its not easy to train random cats to carry parcels. It will not get in any trouble for being an unknown accomplice of the crime and is most likely to be looked after by the animal charities along with various others - I think Japan has "cat islands" like these and the animals although semi-feral can are often friendly.
Yusuke Katayama, 32, used computers around the country to make a series of threats in 2012, including that he would kill multiple people at a comic book event, attack an airplane and target a kindergarten attended by the grandchildren of Emperor Akihito.
"He committed the crime, and the purpose of it was (for police) to make wrongful arrests," said presiding judge Katsunori Ohno at Tokyo District Court, adding that Katayama's actions had been "vicious".
Katayama used a virus to gain control of strangers' computers through which he issued threats and a series of riddles that captured the attention of the national media.
The case exposed the ineptitude of Japan's police force when it came to dealing with cyber crime and highlighted their tendency to force admissions of guilt from people they have arrested.
The National Police Agency (NPA) had to apologise after it emerged that officers had extracted "confessions" from four people they arrested, even though they had nothing to do with the threats.
Police held one of the suspects for several weeks before media and a cyber crime expert received anonymous messages containing information that investigators conceded could only have been known by the real culprit.
The messages said that details of the computer virus had been strapped to a cat on an island near Tokyo.
The police found the cat and tracked down Katayama, arresting him in February 2013.
The NPA chief proffered a red-faced apology, acknowledging his force had been tricked by the hacker and promising his cyber-crime unit would brush up its skills.
Japan cyber-Riddler arrested after strapping virus details to cat - Times LIVE
*nix users; update your systems against this BASH bug I got a warning today from my hosts in NL about this - thankfully a relatively simple upgrade of bash appears to keep it at bay
there are already hackers scanning for the vuln
Concern over Bash vulnerability grows as exploit reported ?in the wild? | Ars Technica
Parents left terrified after man hacked their baby monitor……
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Parents left terrified after man hacked their baby monitor and yelled abuse at them and their 2-year-old daughter
A Houston, Texas couple was horrified when the baby monitor in their young child’s room was taken over by a hacker who verbally attacked them and even used their daughter’s name.Marc Gilbert says he was doing the dishes following his birthday celebration when he heard strange sounds coming from 2-year-old Allyson’s bedroom.
He discovered they were coming from the baby monitor as a stranger’s voice called his sleeping daughter an ‘effing moron’ and ‘little slut’ before he quickly unplugged it.
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Intrusion: This wireless baby monitor was taken over by a hacker who used profanity and verbally attacked 2-year-old girl and her parents
Appalling: Marc Gilbert heard sounds coming from his little girl's room and was horrified to find a stranger's voice coming from his daughter's baby monitor
The virtual intruder even knew Allyson by name because it was written just above her head, on the wall over where she dozed.
The hacker then yelled at Gilbert and his wife, using expletives in what they described as a ‘British or European accent.’
'He said, 'Wake up Allyson, you little (expletive),'" Gilbert said.
Allyson is deaf. Though she has a cochlear implant, it was turned off and she was never bothered by the shocking intrusion.
Then things became even creepier.
Helpless: Marc Gilbert says he believes his internet router was hacked and fears the intrusion has happened before without his or wife Lauren's knowledge
'I see the camera move on us,' Gilbert said.
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‘At that point I ran over and disconnected it and tried to figure out what happened,’ Gilbert told ABC News.
The father of two did his research and now believes his home internet router was hacked and the monitor was subsequently accessed.
‘ couldn't see the guy. All you could do was hear his voice and he was controlling the camera,’ he said.
Gilbert said it was no different a violation than if the hacker had actually entered his home.
'It felt like somebody broke into our house,' Gilbert told KTRK.
Even worse, the Gilberts are forced to wonder if the hacking had occurred in the past.
‘It's quite possible that this had been going on more than one day,’ he said. ‘Security vulnerabilities exist.’
Making the creepy just plain scary: Gilbert said he took all the typical precautions to keep prying eyes out of his home.
'The router was password protected and the firewall was enabled,' Gilbert wrote in the comments section of the KTRK report. 'The IP camera was also password protected.'
Like his sister Allyson, the couple's 3-year-old son Ethan also managed not to hear the shameless intrusion.
But the terrifying experience has the Gilberts rattled enough to stop using the monitor that Marc says they once ‘couldn’t live without.’
'Wake up you little slut': The hacker even spoke the sleeping girl's name, which was written on the wall above her bed
Taking no chances: Now Marc Gilbert is forced to wonder if the hackers had ever struck before. The father of two has decided to permanently unplug the monitor, which he once said he and his wife couldn't live without
‘I don't think it ever will be connected again,’ he said.
The disturbing crime isn't unique, unfortunately.
The newly-crowned Miss Teen USA recently revealed she was secretly photographed in her room after her computer's webcam was hacked.
Cassidy Wolf, who took the crown on Saturday, said she was horrified to learn a stranger had hacked into her computer before trying to extort her on the promise the photos would not be leaked.
The 19-year-old from Temecula, California now travels the country to tell her story and warn other teenagers about cyber-crime.
For his part, Gilbert has plenty of reason to worry about the safety of his family, who have not appeared alongside him in reports of the camera hacking. He wanted to tell his story in order that other families know to be careful not to share the same terrible experience.
'As a father, I'm supposed to protect her against people like this. So it's a little embarrassing to say the least but it's not going to happen again,' Gilbert said.
Miss Teen USA's webcam 'hacked'
Read more: Houston, Texas, baby monitor hacked: man yelled abuse at Marc Gilbert, wife and 2-year-old daughter | Mail Online
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Calling fake antivirus scammers (very funny) You will need to set yourself aside some time but these guys are some of my fav youtube people.
They call one of these fake antivirus companies and give them control of their computer, but the computer is loaded with the gruel worm LOL
Check this video if you want to see waht the gurel worm does to your PC and th second video is the main feature... ENJOY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6a3VSuh8AA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGGpgieEewI
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