Google Maps: online interventions with offline ramifications

The places where online life directly intersection with that lived offline will be forever fascinating, illustrated perfectly through a recent performance piece involving Google Maps, a cart, and an awful lot of mobile phones. Simon Weckert, an artist based in Berlin, Germany, showed how a little...

FLIR Systems FLIR Thermal Traffic Cameras Websocket Device Manipulation

!/usr/bin/env python -- coding: utf-8 -- FLIR Systems FLIR Thermal Traffic Cameras Websocket Device Manipulation Vendor: FLIR Systems, Inc. Product web page: https://www.flir.com Affected firmware version: V1.01-0bb5b27 TrafiOne Codename: TrafiOne E1.00.09 TI BPL2 EDGE Codename: TIIP4EDGE V1.02.P...

The AI’ker’s Guide to the (cybersecurity) Galaxy

As a security veteran I find myself from time to time having to explain to newbies the importance of adopting a ‘hacker’s way of thinking’, and the difference between hacker’s and builder’s thinking. If you can’t think like an attacker, how are you going to build solutions to defend against them?...

Sensys Networks Traffic Sensor Vulnerabilities (Update A)

OVERVIEW This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-14-247-01A Sensys Networks traffic sensor vulnerabilities that was published September 04, 2014, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Researcher Cesar Cerrudo of IOActive has identified vulnerabilities in the Sensys...