Romanian Hackers Infiltrated 65% of DC Outdoor Surveillance Cameras
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#3Hacking aside, it's great to see the perfect diversity score: 50% male/female. Silicon Valley should take note.
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#4I'm gonna assume this Eveline Cismaru is not the hacker mentioned in the article: https://www.starnow.co.uk/evelinecismaru
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#5Hacking aside, it's great to see the perfect diversity score: 50% male/female. Silicon Valley should take note.
This is what makes me skeptical of the diversity movements in America. In Romania and even Russia it seems women are very well represented in tech and there are no movements there.
It seems to me that these movements are mostly used for political maneuvering and are not helpful at all.
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#6DVR devices are insane. I do regular surveys of random IP addresses and find these devices everywhere. They're easily identified by the headers that the embedded servers respond with.
Typically they're cheap devices from China using the same tech just with slightly different branding.
They usually have default passwords like admin:admin that users aren't required to change and often have vulnerabilities that grant access to the rest of the network. And people expose the ports for these things to the entire internet. Maybe people just assume nobody will happen upon their IP address?
The irony, of course, is that people install these for security.
Remember when wifi devices rarely had passwords and you could use your neighbors internet? What caused the change to the modern practice of unique strong passwords by default? Was it consumer driven or was there some other factors? Whatever happened, we need that for IoT devices too.
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#7Hacking aside, it's great to see the perfect diversity score: 50% male/female. Silicon Valley should take note.
This is what makes me skeptical of the diversity movements in America. In Romania and even Russia it seems women are very well represented in tech and there are no movements there. It seems to me that these movements are mostly used for political maneuvering and are not helpful at all.
Eh, what? Russia still faces a lot of violence and discrimination against women: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-21474931.
I'm not sure for the increased participation of women in tech though. Maybe better education? Maybe less of a "computer lovers are all nerds" culture? I honestly don't know.
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#8Hacking aside, it's great to see the perfect diversity score: 50% male/female. Silicon Valley should take note.
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#9Hacking aside, it's great to see the perfect diversity score: 50% male/female. Silicon Valley should take note.
This is what makes me skeptical of the diversity movements in America. In Romania and even Russia it seems women are very well represented in tech and there are no movements there. It seems to me that these movements are mostly used for political maneuvering and are not helpful at all.
As someone from Eastern Europe, all of the women (three generations) in my family are/were in scientific/engineering roles and it didn't seem like a big deal 30 years ago or now. It was just the way things are. I have an aunt who knows COBOL.
Not being familiar enough with history of this in US/Silicon Valley, want to ask: were things always "unequal", or did things go wrong somewhere along the way?
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#10When I was an irresponsible high school grey hat (2001) I was part of a small group of people that shared exploits. We weren't that talented, but one of the guys in our group was still able to get into the cameras in the parking lot of the CIA.
This is the problem with cyber security: Even if you're the most knowledgeable organization on earth you still fuck it up. Any one person can fuck up any one thing and if it isn't part of your predetermined threat vector analysis then it gets through and you lose everything.
The guy took steps to hide his identity then reported it to the CIA. They emailed back with a job offer. Back then we assumed it was trap to get him to travel to the USA from Canada, but these days, based on what I've seen, I think it was legitimate.
Sometimes I like to let thoughts simmer:
In 2001 a shitty high school hacker had a reasonably credible offer from the CIA.