Facebook’s internet project has lost a satellite it was planning to use to provide broadband coverage to sub-Saharan Africa
from ComputerWeekly: IT security http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450303657/SpaceX-rocket-explosion-is-setback-for-Facebook-internet-project
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.
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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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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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Security researchers have found another botnet operation exploiting internet of things devices to carry out powerful distributed denial of service attacks, prompting calls for IoT device makers to improve security
from ComputerWeekly: IT security http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450303601/More-IoT-botnets-connected-to-DDoS-attacks
How can businesses best prepare their cyber defences in light of the fact that attackers are increasingly using malware designed to evade detection and analysis?
from ComputerWeekly: IT security http://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Security-Think-Tank-Human-factor-is-key-to-defeating-evasive-malware
Dropbox is the latest major company to confirm a data breach, albeit four years old, but – as with all recent data breaches by cloud-based services – it highlights some key security lessons
from ComputerWeekly: IT security http://www.computerweekly.com/news/450303585/Lessons-from-the-Dropbox-breach
