Debunking AI’s Impact on the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Artificial intelligence is the latest buzzword to take hold of the cybersecurity industry. It is being touted, among other things, as the ultimate solution to the cybersecurity skills gap. But just how accurate is this belief? Will AI be the cure to all of our cybersecurity ailments, as human...

Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller: How to Secure Autonomous Vehicles

LAS VEGAS – Concerns over cybersecurity issues in vehicles are nothing new – with worries peaking after the 2015 hack of a Jeep Cherokee that enabled control of key functions of the car. And now, the rise of autonomous vehicles are driving a new set of challenges and concerns for the infosec...

Gpredict - Satellite Tracking Application

Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application. It can track a large number of satellites and display their position and other data in lists, tables, maps, and polar plots radar view. Gpredict can also predict the time of future passes for a satellite, and provide you...

Chinese Man Gets 5-Year Prison for Running 'Unauthorized' VPN Service

While continuing its crackdown on services that help Chinese citizens to bypass Great Firewall, Chinese authorities have sentenced a man to five-and-a-half years in prison for selling a VPN service without obtaining a proper license from the government. Earlier this year, the Chinese government...

IoT is Insecure, Get Over It! Say Researchers

BOSTON—Noted security experts Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek said the Internet of Things can’t be secure, but it can be tamed. Drawing from their car hacking experience, the two spent the morning contemplating the larger universe of IoT security and conceded that there will always be thousands ...

The vulnerability of the autonomous configuration tool for the visualization and control system “U.motion Builder” arises from deficiencies in protecting the SQL query structure, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands.

The vulnerability of the autonomous configuration tool for the visualization and control system “U.motion Builder” stems from deficiencies in measures to protect the SQL query structure. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary SQL commands remotely...

The vulnerability of the autonomous configuration tool for the visualization and control system “U.motion Builder” arises from deficiencies in access control and the disclosure of information in error messages, allowing attackers to read arbitrary files.

The vulnerability of the autonomous configuration tool for the U.motion Builder visualization and control system stems from deficiencies in access control and the disclosure of information in error messages. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to remotely read arbitrary files...

The vulnerability of the autonomous configuration tool for the visualization and control system “U.motion Builder” relates to deficiencies in path name restriction, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the autonomous configuration tool for the U.motion Builder visualization and control system relates to deficiencies in path name restriction. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the...

Self-Driving Cars Can Be Hacked By Just Putting Stickers On Street Signs

Car Hacking is a hot topic, though it's not new for researchers to hack cars. Previously they had demonstrated how to hijack a car remotely, how to disable car's crucial functions like airbags, and even how to steal cars. But the latest car hacking trick doesn't require any extra ordinary skills ...

US Army Researching Bot Swarms

The US Army Research Agency is funding research into autonomous bot swarms. From the announcement: The objective of this CRA is to perform enabling basic and applied research to extend the reach, situational awareness, and operational effectiveness of large heterogeneous teams of intelligent...

Dubai Deploying Autonomous Robotic Police Cars

It's hard to tell how much of this story is real and how much is aspirational, but it really is only a matter of time: About the size of a child's electric toy car, the driverless vehicles will patrol different areas of the city to boost security and hunt for unusual activity, all the while...

Securing Driverless Cars From Hackers Is Hard. Ask the Ex-Uber Guy Who Protects Them

In his Uber exit interview, top car hacker Charlie Miller warns of the dangers of insecure autonomous vehicles. The post Securing Driverless Cars From Hackers Is Hard. Ask the Ex-Uber Guy Who Protects Them appeared first on WIRED...

Consortium Publishes Manifesto on Autonomous Vehicle Security

Intel, Uber and IoT company Aeris have joined forces in an effort aimed at fostering industry cooperation when it comes to building safety features into autonomous vehicles and the systems that support them. Today the group, which goes by the name Future of Automotive Security Technology Research...

Linux Network Analyzer: netsniff-ng

Linux Network Analyzer A Swiss army knife for your daily Linux network plumbing netsniff-ng is a free, performant Linux network analyzer and networking toolkit. If you will, the Swiss army knife for network packets. The gain of performance is reached by built-in zero-copy mechanisms, so that on...

Bug Hunting Cyber Bots Set to Square Off at DEF CON

LAS VEGAS — A government project in the works since 2013 is set to conclude Thursday at DEF CON when DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge culminates with a competition it’s calling the CGC Final Event. The challenge will mirror Capture the Flag competitions usually held at the hacking conference. CTF...

Hacker Steals Money from Bank and Donates $11,000 to Anti-ISIS Group

Meet this Robin Hood Hacker: Phineas Fisher, who breached Hacking Team last year, revealed on Reddit Wednesday that he hacked a bank and donated the money to Kurdish anti-capitalists in Rojava autonomous region in northern Syria that borders territory held by the ISIS Islamic State militant group...

Avoiding the Dark Security Future

LAS VEGAS—Nick Percoco has been thinking a lot about the future of technology, and some of the things he’s dreamed up aren’t very pretty: farms of people renting out their spare brain cycles, autonomous cars that freak out and careen into oncoming traffic and hacking groups hijacking users’...

autonomous lan party <= 0.98.1.0 - Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability

No description provided by source. Autonomous LAN party File iNclusion -------------------------------------------- Site:http://www.nerdclub.net/alp/ Demo:http://www.redfiles.net/cup/credits.php -------------------------------------------- Example:...

[SkyJack] Drone engineered to autonomously seek out, hack, and wirelessly take full control over any other drones

SkyJack is a drone engineered to autonomously seek out, hack, and wirelessly take full control over any other drones within wireless or flying distance, creating an army of zombie drones under your control. by @SamyKamkar // [email protected] // http://samy.pl // Dec 2, 2013 Overview Today...

DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge Offers $2M to Winners

The bug bounty continues to be turned on its ear. Microsoft began the wave of paying premium money for mitigation technologies via its Blue Hat prizes, and now DARPA has gone all-in to the tune of $2 million for the development of an automated network defense system that not only scans for and...