Forbes reports that two grad students at California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo recently developed POC spyware for Google Glass ).Malware has been desighned by Mike Lady 22 year old researcher along with Kim Paterson 24 year old software professional , malware is able to take and upload photo every…
Worcester Polytechnic Institute researchers examine fire safety concerns raised by green buildings
Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response With the construction industry adopting a wide array of “green” technologies, materials, and sustainable building practices, a team of fire protection engineering researchers at View full post on The Cyber Wars
Snapchat exploits published by snubbed researchers
After months of being ignored by the company behind the popular instant messaging app Snapchat, Australian hackers Gibson Security has finally published exploits that they discovered. The exploits could be used to match names and phone numbers on Snapchat. Additionally, unscrupulous hackers could also use the exploits to create thousands of…
Repeated attacks hijack huge chunks of Internet traffic, researchers warn
Huge chunks of Internet traffic belonging to financial institutions, government agencies, and network service providers have repeatedly been diverted to distant locations under unexplained circumstances that are stoking suspicions the traffic may be surreptitiously monitored or modified before being passed along to its final destination. Researchers from network intelligence…
Researchers develop new cloaking technology
There are a lot of reasons to want to make things invisible, other than it just being incredibly cool. There are the many potential military uses of cloaking technology, of course, but it could also help improve cellular signals by hiding objects that would normally block and weaken signal…
University researchers developing action hero robot
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response Image Caption: ‘McGyver’ robot A robot capable of cool reasoning in hazardous situations, capable of using tools spontaneously to get itself and humans out of those tight spots is the goal of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. A research team at the…
University-based researchers unraveling worldwide spam scams
Jacob Goodwin Top Priority Sector: cyber_security The National Science Foundation has recently awarded a five-year grant totaling $10 million to three separate universities whose researchers have been trying for years to map out the anatomy of worldwide email spamming scams, and now plan to broaden their research to include worldwide…
Black Hat: Researchers take over Linksys router with simple JavaScript
Two security experts found a way to automate a JavaScript attack that could infect beyond the browser. View full post on Latest articles from SC Magazine News For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net or http://AmIHackerProof.com View full post on National Cyber Security
Update: Security researchers discover link between Stuxnet and Flame
Security researchers from antivirus vendor Kaspersky Labs have found evidence that the development teams behind the Flame and Stuxnet cyberespionage threats collaborated with each other. The Kaspersky researchers determined that Flame, which is believed to have been created in 2008, and a 2009-version of Stuxnet shared one component that served…
Security vulnerability reporting framework upgraded for researchers
The security industry’s Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework (CVRF) framework for reporting and sharing security vulnerabilities in a machine-readable format has been given a promised revamp to make it easier to use for third-party researchers. View full … View full post on National Cyber Security » Computer Hacking
