+1 for the System Shock reference :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Shock
Disappointing, though, that the CNN writer didn't manage to suss out the project's apt namesake.
Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet
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Re: Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet
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I'd like to see the local lights reprogrammed to follow the legal guidelines instead of short yellows to maximize traffic ticket revenues.
Consider yellow to mean "stop", and the length of it becomes irrelevant and the roads become a little bit safer.
For each given stop light, speed limit, and vehicle configuration, there is a rubicon that is crossed where it is impossible to stop before entering the intersection. Set up your camera and creep the yellow light time down past this limit and profits just start rolling in.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Love this: http://www.metasploit.com/about/penetration-testing-basics/ "You can become a penetration tester at home by testing your own server and later make a career out of it." Sounds like the old style correspondence school ads - a bit hokey. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/correspondence+school I would have rewritten that as: "Many people have actually made a career out of being a penetration tester by first tes…
You can absolutely learn to do penetration testing on your own time with your own servers. We have a script we give people to do the same thing. If you feel like you have a knack for systems programming, being a good systems programmer is 1/2 the hard part of appsec; the other 1/2 is literally "taking pleasure in finding creative ways to break things", and you can find out if you have that personality streak in just…
Is this script available? Thanks
Re: Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet
#84They also missed ERIPP, which does something similar.
This is all old news though, these things are constantly mentioned in other security reports. Even the government knows these things exist, which means that CNN is not scouping anyone :)
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can absolutely learn to do penetration testing on your own time with your own servers. We have a script we give people to do the same thing. If you feel like you have a knack for systems programming, being a good systems programmer is 1/2 the hard part of appsec; the other 1/2 is literally "taking pleasure in finding creative ways to break things", and you can find out if you have that personality streak in just…
Is this script available? Thanks
Shoot me an email.
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Getting down is way easier than getting up. ISS has some engines, crashing on earth is very simple, you can just thrust in the opposite direction that you are going (thus falling into the planet, although slowly and probably astronauts can find the attacker and put it back into orbit before anything serious happens) or you can trust in a diagonal of sorts, to slow your speed AND toward the planet (if you just acceler…
It seems like the harder part would be hitting New York. You could crash the ISS somewhere on Earth pretty trivially, if you had the controls.
Assuming they didn't, you know, disconnect you while you were doing it. There are actual people up there; presumably they have manual overrides.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd like to see the local lights reprogrammed to follow the legal guidelines instead of short yellows to maximize traffic ticket revenues.
Consider yellow to mean "stop", and the length of it becomes irrelevant and the roads become a little bit safer.
No. Yellow tells you to go faster.
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There would be debris hitting the Earth. It's too big to completely burn I think.
Perhaps, but ~70% of the Earth is empty ocean, and lots of the remainder is relatively empty landmass (huge deserts, unpopulated areas like Siberia, etc.), so just from a statistical perspective the odds of something that survives re-entry hitting a populated area without remote guidance are pretty slim.
Russia called, they said no.
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The MAC has to be stored in flash so why not a password?
Usually the MAC is stored in the network card's flash while the system image is stored in a different flash altogether, which is often cheaper if you can find a way to get away with making them all exactly the same.
Not on new SoCs, where there is only one flash and indeed the ethernet is on the CPU. Which is what these devices are.
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#90But he added that cybercriminals typically have access to botnets -- large collections of infected computers -- that are able to achieve the same task without detection. What do botnets have to do with crawling the web for unsecured devices? I'm not sure I understand the correlation.
Funny enough that question was answered in a rather public way just a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5404642 (Researcher sets up illegal 420,000 node botnet for IPv4 Internet map)