After our recent story about the trading of BlackBerries for data theft the issue has emerged again this time more towards the secure disposal of data stored on PC hard disks.
If a company or organisation has a decent data/information security policy in place (Like ISO27001 for example) they should have a secure destruction/disposal policy as [...]
The number of Crackberry Blackberry users is increasing exponentially – especially since they released the much sexier Bold and the latest touch-screen Storm.
The latest revelation is that used BlackBerries are being traded, not by the value of the phone but by the value of the data contained on the phone!
It just shows most companies still [...]
EFIPW is a tool that can be used to decode and modify Apple EFI firmware passwords via the command line. It is designed after the non open source OFPW utility and is designed to work on Intel machines running Leopard or newer. Useful for lab deployments (setting the firmware password of machines as [...]
Hardware hacking is an interesting area and something not too many people get into as the soldering irons, capacitors and chipsets seem daunting. I did have a play around with cable boxes and satellite feeds in my earlier years and was surprised to find how insecure they were.
Most traffic is transmitted unencrypted, the stuff that [...]
If your organisation is using any kind of Cisco Wi-Fi kit it may be time to get the latest patches for your kit. Although they state there is no proof that hackers have used this attack in the wild – in my experience if Cisco have discovered this now, someone else probably knew about it [...]
This is an interesting development in router security, Cisco bugs have been popping up now and then – not that often – but usually when they do they are quite serious.
The problem with them was you needed so many variations unless you were just targeting one specific router, with that specific version of IOS and [...]
Well this is quite scary as biometrics are touted as the ultimate in security and two factor authentication with biometrics is about as ‘heavy’ as most places get.
The fact that the biometric data can be ’sniffed’ reconstructed and re-used…is worrying to say the least. Do any of you have biometric measures in your workplace?
A British [...]
Interesting research from Elcomsoft, using the parallel processing capacity of graphics cards to speed up the password cracking process.
Pretty inventive thinking, as graphics cards get more and more powerful, and they are created to do massive parallel tasks for all the latest and greatest games, why not apply it to password cracking!
A technique for cracking [...]
The scariest type of all, hardware vulnerabilities. Security guru and creator of OpenBSD Theo de Raadt recently announced he had found some fairly serious bugs in the hardware architecture of Intel Core 2 Duo processors.
He goes as far as saying avoid buying a C2D processor until these problems are fixed.
A prominent software developer with a [...]
This is a bit of hacking in the original sense of the word, taking a $60 router and giving it the capabilities of something costing in the hundreds or thousands (enterprise level).
Of all the great DIY projects at this year’s Maker Faire, the one project that really caught my eye involved converting a regular old [...]
