With the ever-increasing use of HTML email, senders can embed images into their emails. These can then be loaded from a remote web server or attached directly to email. When images are remote, they can be tagged by the sender to know who, exactly, opened the message and when. Giving them, in effect, a return-receipt capability that can't be disabled by the recipient. Here's a safe demonstration of this concept. Luckily, I loathe HTML email so I have it disabled anyway.
Another example of RFID passports being easy to compromise.
The mobib smart card used for public transport in Brussels is not as secure as they make it out to be.
The mobib smart card used for public transport in Brussels is not as secure as they make it out to be.
Fuck the cloud. Couldn’t agree more. I see lots of lost data in the future.
DRM doesn’t even work. It’s a corporate trojan horse.
Combining multiple freely available data sources is often just as accurate as a single one, if not more.
Yet another reason to make sure you’re running an ad blocker.
Tables ranking various service providers for security and privacy: email, vpn, password management, etc.
“We’re looking at a fitness tracker hacking a smart speaker, a smart speaker hacking a thermostat, and the thermostat hacking the rest of the network.”
It’s a long one but well worth the read. Quite a story and also a warning to all those businesses pushing security work down the line.
A Wired journalist tracks down the author of the infamous Love Bug trojan that brought down millions of computers 20 years ago and made the news worldwide.
Another video concerning online tracking and all the data about you constantly being hoovered up. This one takes a good look at the difference between privacy and security.
