Information Security & Occasional Forays Into Adjacent Realms
Well wrought thought piece on the use, and misuse, of prepaid cellular telephony hardware, the so-call Burner, and the effort to enforce regulations thereto. Entitled Burner Phones: Will Tightening Restrictions on Prepaid Cell Phones Solve Anything? Certainly today's Must Read post...
Another nearly perfect example of why signals (radio frequency electromagnetic communications) are a vital component of multilevel security in the environment you either work in, or are exploited by...
In this fascinating project by Columbia University's Intrusion Detection Lab doctoral student Ang Cui, comes a reminder that embedded componentry can be leveraged to leak the blather contained in silicon; and, astoundingly, all it took was seven lines of code. Absolutely Phenomenal.
Image Credit: Ben Caudill (Founder of Rhino Security Labs and Creator of ProxyHam)
Via CSO Online's Steven Ragan, writing on the *Salted Hash blog, comes interesting news of the cancellation of Seattle's Rhino Security Labs' founder Ben Caudill's ProxyHam presentation, slated for DefCon 23. That is All.
The InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG) of the Internet Society (ISOC) has announced the organizations' Second Annual IPN Conference in Washington, DC; slated for Monday, May 18, 2015. This time focusing on Delay & Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN): the Emerging Standard for Space Data Communications.
Speakers include:
While admission is free for all to attend, and breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack will be provided it is crucial that you register to attend. Physical attendance is limited to 150 people. The event will reportedly be webcast on the Internet Society’s LiveStream Channel and presentations will also be published on YouTube for VOD streaming poste-event. You can register for the event at the IPN's Eventbrite site.
The RAM House by PROKOSS + Space Caviar
The ulitmate whole-house signal-attenuation device.... Behold, the Faraday Home, perfect for the paranoid amongst us; or those that suffer from idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields (IEI-EMF).
More IPV6 myths exposed by ISOC's Deploy360 Director Chris Grundemann. This time focusing on the myth that IPv6 is too new to be attacked. Today's MustRead!
Astoundingly, myths still arise in this epoch of science, strangely so, when dealing with new technologies [Read: new means new in the final two years of the last century as IPv4 was originally codified by the IETF in 1981, with the acceptance of RFC 791] - in this case the vaunted move to IPv6. Now, arising from the ashes of IPv4 exhaustion hysteria, comes a current popular myth surrounds the utilization NATs in IPv4 and the lack of a counterpart construct in IPv6.
Interesting signals research (yet already a given in modern, rigorous and protective environments) the notion of side channel analysis of extraneous electro-magentic signals has hit the popular computer media soapbox. This time, via PCWorlds' Jeremy Kirks' story, detailing research at Georgia Institute of Technology. Evidently, the work is ostensibly an effort to block signal emanation from the platforms under scrutiny. There is always room for a commercial application of a dampening field, perhaps another Cone of Silence?
Fascinating blog post at Trustwave SpiderLabs by Tom Neaves, detailing a deep interest in all things wireless, and in this case 802.11 wireless and covert channel exploitation. Today's Must Read.
In a rather bizarre case of superbes capacités auditives or Hyperacusia comes this story via IO9, detailing one man's capability to discern WIFI signals in and about his person. Odd that...