18th March 2016 Symantec’s enterprise anti-malware package has several security flaws in it. This shows that even computers “protected” with anti-malware can still be hacked to an extent. SEP is commonly used in large institutions such as Lancaster Univeristy and often has kernel privileges. What I find worrying about this is that an attacker can…
18th March 2016 “Pwn2Own Researchers pulled off multiple OS X, Windows and web browser exploits at the latest Pwn2Own competition.” Whats great about events such as Pwn2Own is that experienced hackers can cracking into various software packages, legally and earn prizes for this and are under an NDA doing this. I’m a fan of this…
March 7th 2016 First ransomware has started infecting OSX Computers. Being very similar to the malicious copy of Linux Mint back in february, except this will encrypt all of your files and demand a ransom. What’s interesting is how an attacker could replace the legitimate version of Transmission with a malicious copy of OSX.Keranger.A and…
March 4th 2016 IBM have filed patents for some new Piezoelectric Transistors(PETs) which are thought to reinstate Moores law and provide a better alternatives to older Silicon Transistors. This is great news because at the moment processor performance increases are no where near what they used to be 10 years ago. Even Intel themselves are…
February 29th 2016 One of the largest DDos(Distributed Denial of Service) Attack took place in 2015 with the power of 500gbps. To put this into context that is over 5 times the bandwidth of the whole of Lancaster University! I do agree with this article in that there must be two parts to this. Enterprises…
February 26th 2016 Generally most computers have fans in computers to keep them cool. Heat is produced due to the inefficiencies of computer processor. High performance processors such as the Intel Core i7 6700k with a TDP of 95w can be used in conjunction with just a radiator rather than having a clunky fan to…
February 21st 2016 On 20th February 2016, Linux Mint was hacked and malware was planted in an official software update. What’s interesting about this is how the attackers might have compromised the website and how they could change the OS ISO download, but not the MD5 hash(verify download). Linux Mint is one of the most…
February 20th 2016 The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) says its main goal is to “help unify IoT standards so that companies and developers can create IoT solutions and devices that work seamlessly together. The problem with the Internet Of Things is that much of the devices have been developed using bespoke(insecure/untested) protocols, leaving gaping holes…
February 14th 2016 Apple’s iOS plagued by a bug which saw users’ phone being set to Jan 1st, 1970, unable to boot back into the phone. This included being unable to restore the phone. 1st Jan 1970 is known as Unix epoch time where all times are based from. This is considered the ‘start’ of…
February 11th 2016 Qualcomm is a US company based in San Diego who specialise in designing ARM processors and mobile phone modems. This article covers a 4g Modem called the Snapdragon X16 which can support 4g LTE speeds of up to 1gbps. As this new technology is limited to only if the phone is close to the mast,…
February 7th 2016 Drones can be used for a number of purposes from selfies to beaming internet, to saving lives, the possibilities are endless! Recently drones have been used where human life can be at danger such as exploring dangerous environment looking for survivors or disarming a bomb. What i’m a great fan of in this…
February 7th 2016 CVE-2016-1524 can be used to gain “God-Mode” on a netgear enterprise router. Essentially this could allow a remote attack to gain access to the router, globally and potentially monitor traffic along with causing an outage within a data centre. This could end up costing a company thousands to millions of pounds with…
February 5th 2016 Facebook has changed the way we communicate. They have blasted the so called six degrees of separation and reduced it to 3.57 due to their vast social network which means you are only 3.57 on average contacts away from talking to everyone on facebook. Technology like this is great and can mean…
February 4th 2016 AMD Eye condition mostly affects people over 50 and leads to almost blindness. People become unable to identify faces and find it very difficult to perform every day normal tasks. This is a very common problem in people aged 50 and over and affects part of the retina. NVISION have performed surgery to…
February 4th 2016 Github is relied on by thoundands of IT companies experienced an outage on 28th January 2016, resulting in those companies unable to work, therefore loss of revenue. Whats interesting is that github’s internal communication system that engineers use also relies on the same data centre which delayed engineers communications. Surely it would have been…
