By adding extra code to a digital music file, they were able to turn a song burned to CD into a Trojan horse. When played on the car’s stereo, this song could alter the firmware of the car’s stereo system, giving attackers an entry point to change other components on the car. This type of attack could be spread on file-sharing networks without arousing suspicion, they believe. “It’s hard to think of something more innocuous than a song,” said Stefan Savage, a professor at the University of California
Archive for 2011/03/12
With hacking, music can take control of your car
Posted: 2011/03/12 in Cybercrime, Education / AwarenessGame Maker: 40 Percent of iTunes App Purchases Are Fraud
Posted: 2011/03/12 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsDutch parliamentarians of The Green Party want to know if the United States will prosecute WikiLeaks hacker Rop Gonggrijp
Posted: 2011/03/12 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyParliamentarians Arjan El Fassed and Tofik Dibi want answers from the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Security and Justice
Dutch language news article: http://tweakers.net/nieuws/73172/groenlinks-wil-opheldering-over-verdenking-tegen-rop-gonggrijp.html
Previously: http://vrritti.com/?s=gonggrijp
Router-Compromising Malware in Latin America
Posted: 2011/03/12 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data ProtectionThe British government has endorsed a transparent film that can block Wi-Fi transmissions and other wireless signals from traveling through windows
Posted: 2011/03/12 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionThe film, called SpyGuard, can be laminated or fitted inside windows to prevent remote eavesdroppers from penetrating rooms with infrared or Wi-Fi signals to steal information or access private networks
http://www.zdnet.com/news/sheet-could-shelter-wi-fi-from-eavesdroppers/142516
In an aggressive bid to entice prospective “sex tourists,” the Department of Homeland Security last year launched an undercover web site that purported to arrange trips from the U.S. to Canada, where clients could engage in sexual activity with minors, The Smoking Gun has learned
Posted: 2011/03/12 in Education / Awareness, Public PolicyWikileaks, Appelbaum, Lamo, Project Vigilant Connections
Posted: 2011/03/12 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data ProtectionNote* Anon’s post takes a look at the triad, Lamo, Appelbaum, and Assange. and their mutual entanglement with project Vigilant. The massive data mining of the TOR network by Appelbaum via a phalanx of exit nodes with the domain name lostinthenoise.net, and the passing of data to Assange to form the initial document trove of Wikileaks, some of which were passed to the US government.
This memo exposes the sordid connections between Wikileaks, the Tor Project, and a hacker spy collective known as Project Vigilant. The common thread between these entities is a single hacker named Jacob Appelbaum. We examine Appelbaum’s relationships with each organisation
Appelbaum’s position at the University of Washington (despite having no education whatsoever), his salaried position at the Tor Project (despite not knowing how to program), and his evidenced involvement in mining the Tor network for Wikileaks — are all symptomatic of the revolving door mechanisms typically employed by intelligence services to move assets in and out of key circles of academia and non-profits.
Previously: http://vrritti.com/?s=appelbaum
And:
WikiLeaks hacker Jacob Appelbaum promotes TOR on Dutch TV
http://vrritti.com/2011/02/17/wikileaks-hacker-jacob-appelbaum-promotes-tor-on-dutch-tv/
Flickr Confirms Taking Down Egyptian Blogger’s Photos, Cites Community Guidelines Violation
Posted: 2011/03/12 in Blocking, Education / Awarenessaccusations of censorship
LinkedIn has introduced a news aggregation service called LinkedIn Today. This delivers a personalized news experience, letting you quickly discover the top headlines of the day based around what your connections and industry peers are reading and sharing
Posted: 2011/03/12 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Tech EvolutionDutch man has to pay a 14,000 euro fine for distributing adware and spyware via MSN
Posted: 2011/03/12 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, JurisprudenceDutch language news article: http://webwereld.nl/nieuws/106003/msn-malwareverspreider-krijgt-14-000-euro-boete.html
A federal judge in Virginia today granted federal prosecutors access to WikiLeaks-related Twitter accounts, including information about what Internet and e-mail addresses are associated with them
Posted: 2011/03/12 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence, Litigation, Privacy / Data ProtectionThe 20-page ruling represents a clear victory for the U.S. Department of Justice, which sought the court order as part of a grand jury probe that appears to be investigating whether WikiLeaks principals, including editor Julian Assange, violated American criminal laws.
In the wake of last month’s win for ISP iiNet in its legal battle with Hollywood-backed anti-piracy group AFACT, the Internet Industry Association announced today it will begin work immediately on a code of conduct for ISPs and other Internet companies. The aim of the code will be to help clarify the legal rights and responsibilities of a connected range of providers including ISPs, search engines, hosts and social media sites
Posted: 2011/03/12 in Education / Awareness, New Business ModelsNew US crime. Copyright linking.
Posted: 2011/03/12 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Public PolicyGoogle as US Commerce Secretary?
Posted: 2011/03/12 in Education / Awareness, Future Developments?, Google, Public PolicyTelephone communications across Japan have been disrupted following Friday’s massive earthquake, although data center operations appear to be holding up
Posted: 2011/03/12 in Education / Awareness, Network SecurityThe biggest outage, due to a break in the submarine line, is on a service operated by KDDI that feeds 20 million fixed telephone lines
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/11/japan_quake_phones_out/
As Google builds HTML5 offline access into its Google Docs web-based word processor, the company has introduced a change that inadvertently causes problems for some netizens using the service behind a network firewall
Posted: 2011/03/12 in Education / Awareness, Google, Network Security, Tech EvolutionGoogle will not reverse the change, saying that it’s required for offline access, due later this year. But it has provided businesses and schools with (extensive) instructions for reconfiguring firewalls so that the service can operate normally
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/11/google_docs_firewall_issues/
