Topic: SECURITY - on August 7, 2016 at 5:28:00 PM CEST
Nigerian Scammers Infect Themselves With Own Malware, Revealing New Wire-Wire Fraud Scheme
A pair of security researchers recently uncovered a Nigerian scammer ring that they say operates a new kind of attack called “wire-wire” after a few of its members accidentally infected themselves with their own malware. Over the past several months, they’ve watched from a virtual front row seat as members used this technique to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from small and medium-sized businesses worldwide. “We've gotten unprecedented insight into the very nitty-gritty mechanics of their entire operation,” says James Bettke, a researcher at SecureWorks, a subsidiary of Dell Inc. focused on cybersecurity. Bettke and Joe Stewart, who directs malware research for SecureWorks, are presenting the details of their findings this week at the annual Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 7, 2016 at 5:27:00 PM CEST
Hackers Could Break Into Your Monitor To Spy on You and Manipulate Your Pixels
We think of our monitors as passive entities. The computer sends them data, and they somehow—magically?—turn it into pixels which make words and pictures. But what if that wasn’t the case? What if hackers could hijack our monitors and turn them against us? As it turns out, that’s possible. A group of researchers has found a way to hack directly into the tiny computer that controls your monitor without getting into your actual computer, and both see the pixels displayed on the monitor—effectively spying on you—and also manipulate the pixels to display different images.
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Topic: SECURITY - on August 7, 2016 at 5:25:00 PM CEST
Hacker-Spaß mit Hue-Leuchten
Zwei Hacker haben sich das Hue-System von Philips genauer angeschaut und dabei eine derzeit noch nicht geschlossene Schwachstelle und einen Designfehler gefunden. Letzterer eignet sich, um größere Mengen Hue-Leuchten per Wurm zu infizieren. Die Hacker Colin O'Flynn, Doktorand in Kanada, und Eyal Ronen, Doktorand bei Krypto-Legende Adi Shamir, haben sich eingehend mit Philips-Hue-Leuchten befasst. O'Flynn nahm die Hardware der Bridge (Version 1 und 2) sowie der Leuchtmittel auseinander, Ronen konzipierte eine feindliche Übernahme beliebiger Leuchten. Letzteres nutzt eine bislang von Philips nicht behobene Lücke aus, die erst Ende August per Update geschlossen werden soll. Daher veröffentlicht Ronen noch keine Details.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 7, 2016 at 5:23:00 PM CEST
WikiLeaks: Alcohol Industry Encourages Congressional Concern About Cannabis
Is the alcohol industry is spending money to get members of Congress to pay attention to the problem of “marijuana-impaired driving”? That’s the case being made on cannabis industry website Marijuana.com, where a blogger seems to have assiduously searched the famous WikiLeaks dump of DNC e-mails for any reference to our favorite herb. What the blogger found was in the May 24, 2016 edition of Huddle, a daily e-newsletter for Capitol Hill insiders produced by the Politico website. That issue included a paid advertisement from the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA), which reads in part: While neutral on the issue of legalization, WSWA believes states that legalize marijuana need to ensure appropriate and effective regulations are enacted to protect the public from the dangers associated with the abuse and misuse of marijuana… In the years since the state legalized medicinal use, Colorado law enforcement officials have documented a significant increase in traffic fatalities in which drivers tested positive for marijuana… Congress should fully fund Section 4008 of the FAST Act (PL 114-94) in the FY 2017 Appropriations process to document the prevalence of marijuana impaired driving, outline impairment standards and determine driving impairment detection methods.
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 7, 2016 at 5:22:00 PM CEST
Public could soon purchase Prince's Paisley Park palace
An iconic piece of Prince's history could soon be up for grabs to anyone with millions to spare. The late pop star's Paisley Park mansion is ready to be sold by his bank, along with his other properties, according to court documents obtained by the Daily News. Paisley Park — the 60,000-square-foot Minnesota estate where the singer was found dead of a drug overdose in April — is estimated to be worth nearly $7 million, while the other parcels put together were valued at more than $21 million total, the documents read.
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Topic: TOR - on August 7, 2016 at 5:19:00 PM CEST
Machine-Learning Algorithm Combs the Darknet for Zero Day Exploits, and Finds Them
The first machine-based search of online hacker marketplaces identifies over 300 significant cyberthreats every week. In February 2015, Microsoft identified a critical vulnerability in its Windows operating system that potentially allowed a malicious attacker to remotely control the targeted computer. The problem affected a wide variety of Windows operating systems including, Vista, 7, 8 and various others designed for servers and mobile computers. The company immediately issued a fix. But it didn’t take long for details of the vulnerability to spread through the hacker community.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on August 7, 2016 at 5:16:00 PM CEST
Teilchenbeschleuniger LHC: Rätselhaftes Teilchen gab es nicht
Das Standardmodell der Elementarteilchen wackelt vielleicht, doch noch bricht es nicht zusammen. Eine zuvor bei 750 GeV beobachtete Diphoton-Resonanz, die auf ein neues Elementarteilchen hindeutete, hat sich in Luft aufgelöst. Auf de 38. International Conference on High Energy Physics in Chicago haben Physiker Daten präsentiert, die viele Physiker enttäuschen dürften. Die vermeintlich bei 750 GeV gemessene Resonanz – die auf ein neues Teilchen und Physik jenseits des Standardmodells hinweisen sollte – ist in neuen Daten nahezu komplett verschwunden. Die vorläufigen Daten hatten für Aufruhr in der Welt der Teilchenphysiker gesorgt und mehr als 500 wissenschaftliche Arbeiten nach sich gezogen, wie der New Scientist gezählt hat. Wissenschaftler hatten "endlich" neue Physik gewittert – vom Vetter des Higgs-Teilchens über supersymmetrische Partner des hypothetischen Goldstino bis zur einfachen Zerfallskaskade mit Photonenpaaren.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on August 7, 2016 at 5:10:00 PM CEST
New particle hopes fade as LHC data 'bump' disappears
Hopes for the imminent discovery of a particle that might fundamentally change our understanding of the Universe have been put on hold. Results from the Large Hadron Collider show that a "bump" in the machine's data, previously rumoured to represent a new particle, has gone away. The discovery of new particles, which could trigger a paradigm shift in physics, may still be years away. All the latest LHC results are being discussed at a conference in Chicago. David Charlton of Birmingham University, leader of the Atlas experiment at the LHC, told BBC News that everyone working on the project was disappointed. "There was a lot of excitement when we started to collect data. But in the [latest results] we see no sign of a bump, there's nothing. "It is a pity because it would have been a really fantastic thing if there had been a new particle."
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 7, 2016 at 5:08:00 PM CEST
Celebrating 'Revolver': Beatles' First On-Purpose Masterpiece
1966: the most manic of the Beatlemania years. The lads get chased around the world, playing 25-minute sets that have nothing to do with the increasingly complex music they're exploring in the studio. A long-forgotten John quote about religion – "We're more popular than Jesus now" – gets dug up and creates a scandal in America. A Ku Klux Klan protest outside their Memphis show draws 8,000 people. The butcher cover gets censored. The drugs get heavier – Paul dabbles in cocaine, John dabbles in acid. George gets serious about Indian music and religion. Ringo starts a construction company called Bricky Builders. And in their spare time, the Beatles make the greatest rock album ever, Revolver, released on August 5th, 1966 – an album so far ahead of its time, the world is still catching up with it 50 years later. This is where the Beatles jumped into a whole new future – where they truly became the tomorrow that never knows.
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Topic: WEB - on August 7, 2016 at 5:05:00 PM CEST
Vor 25 Jahren: Das WWW taucht im Usenet auf
Das Internet feiert wieder einmal einen seiner vielen Geburtstage: Auf den Tag genau vor 25 Jahren stellte Tim Berners-Lee das Projekt WorldWideWeb in der Usenet-Gruppe alt.hypertext vor. Genau vor 25 Jahren antwortete der am Genfer CERN beschäftigte Informatiker und Physiker Tim Berners-Lee auf die in alt.hypertext gestellte Frage zum Entwicklungsstand bei Hypertext-Systemen mit einer kurzen Beschreibung des Projekts WorldWideWeb. Wenige Stunden später schickte er eine "Executive Summary" des Projektes an die Usenet-Gruppe, die mit info.cern.ch den Verweis auf die Ur-Website enthält, die am 13. November 1990 installiert worden war.
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