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There was a suspect in the disclosure of information about the authors of Stuxnet

U.S. intelligence agencies continue to look for the culprit in the declassification of classified cyber operations to introduce the Stuxnet worm in Iran’s computer systems.
Details about the operation “Olympic Games” were published in NY Times June 1, 2012 . The article...
There was a suspect in the disclosure of information about the authors of Stuxnet

Edward Snowden trained by the NSA

The papers of Edward Snowden not give enough clarity about what exactly he was doing for the NSA, what was his position.
He was not told about it, and his employer is also silent. Snowden officially called the technician or system administrator, but in an interview with China Morning Post, he...
Edward Snowden trained by the NSA

Code for spoofing APK preserving digital signatures on Android-powered devices

A few days ago, the company Bluebox Security announced that at the Black Hat USA 2013 conference, which begins July 27, 2013, they will talk about the enchanting vulnerability in the security model of the operating system Android, which allows an attacker to modify the contents of the APK...
Code for spoofing APK preserving digital signatures on Android-powered devices

Encryption is the first stop to intercept communications

It is no secret that government agencies are constantly monitoring communications of individuals, that is, ordinary citizens. In the case of the American system of surveillance is particularly interesting to see how often the interception of communications, whether it is a permanent process or...
Encryption is the first stop to intercept communications

The supercomputer "Tianhe-2" Takes No. 1 Ranking on 41st TOP500 List

The new Chinese supercomputer “Tianhe-2″ (“Milky Way-2″) headed by a fresh rating of the top 500 most powerful computer systems in the world.
The performance of this amounts to 33.86 petaflops supercomputer, which is almost twice the maximum performance of the former...
The supercomputer "Tianhe-2" Takes No. 1 Ranking on 41st TOP500 List

Export tweets in different formats

If you’re tired of Twitter and you want to leave this site forever, then, if desired you can make a total export of all your tweets. The easiest way to do this is through the service twDocs.
The service supports exporting to PDF, DOC, XML, CSV, TXT, XLS and HTML. Archive logs all messages,...
Export tweets in different formats

Export tweets in different formats

If you’re tired of Twitter and you want to leave this site forever, then, if desired you can make a total export of all your tweets. The easiest way to do this is through the service twDocs.
The service supports exporting to PDF, DOC, XML, CSV, TXT, XLS and HTML. Archive logs all messages,...
Export tweets in different formats

OWASP - Top 10 Vulnerabilities

Topping the list of the most dangerous and widespread flaws in web-applications was taken by injection of code.
According to the creators of Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), which for the past 10 years is the top 10 most dangerous vulnerabilities in web-applications published the...
OWASP - Top 10 Vulnerabilities

New Windows-backdoor deletes MBR

Antivirus company Trend Micro warns of a new backdoor BKDR_MATSNU.MCB , which is actively promoted through mass mailings, especially in Germany. The malware has the unpleasant feature: a command from the remote C & C-server, or it can block the loading of the PC, or delete the master boot...
New Windows-backdoor deletes MBR

The world's first CPU of 5GHz

AMD has introduced the most powerful processor in the family of AMD FX and the world’s first commercially available CPU with a clock frequency of 5 GHz. Processor AMD FX-9590 with 8 cores provide high performance for gaming and multimedia applications on desktop computers. It is symbolic...
The world's first CPU of 5GHz

Critical vulnerability in 60 + models of CCTV and IP-cameras

A group of students from the European University of Madrid published the results of their thesis at the Faculty of Information Technology. They explored the protection of the various surveillance systems found on the Internet through Google and Shodan.
In total, they analyzed 9 systems, they...
Critical vulnerability in 60 + models of CCTV and IP-cameras

Hack a Samsung TV with SmartTV function

As reported in his blog, Helfurt German researcher Martin (Martin Herfurt), was able to crack the Samsung TV with function SmartTV.
The expert noted that a successful cyber attack carried out from a remote computer to broadcast programs on technology HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV), used...
Hack a Samsung TV with SmartTV function

The man who "almost broke the Internet"

Two weeks ago Sven Olaf Kamfius (Sven Olaf Kamphuis) was arrested in Spain, of the company Cyberbunker. He was taken to the Netherlands, where he was held in court.
Most likely, the lawsuit was filed against Kamfiusa antispam company Spamhaus – a recent victim of DDoS-attacks with the...
The man who "almost broke the Internet"

The man who "almost broke the Internet"

Two weeks ago Sven Olaf Kamfius (Sven Olaf Kamphuis) was arrested in Spain, of the company Cyberbunker. He was taken to the Netherlands, where he was held in court.
Most likely, the lawsuit was filed against Kamfiusa antispam company Spamhaus – a recent victim of DDoS-attacks with the...
The man who "almost broke the Internet"

The search continues for the sixth member of LulzSec

Last week in the UK ended the trial of four young boys, three of whom are considered key players in the famous hacker group LulzSec. Previously convicted of two more, including the informal leader Sabu, who for many months was working as an FBI informant . At the same time, law enforcement...
The search continues for the sixth member of LulzSec

Statistics on the botnet Carna

Analyst in Information Security Parth Shukla at the conference AusCERT prepared an interesting presentation dedicated to botnet Carna. Recall that it was through this global botnet that the largest scan of the Internet was carried out for research purposes – Internet Census 2012.

For ten...
Statistics on the botnet Carna

MitmProxy 0.9

The new version of one of the best MiTM HTTP-proxy with support for SSL, having a console interface and allows you to check and edit the traffic flow “on the fly”, and save them for later analysis. According to the words of the program’s Aldo Cortes (Aldo Cortesi), this...
MitmProxy 0.9

The new 0day-vulnerability in Linux 2.6.37 - 3.8.8

A few days ago an exploit ready was published, which carries an escalation of privileges in Linux 2.6.37 – 3.8.8. The code shown on the link, anyone can compile and run on your system, checking its operation. If it does not work, it’s not a reason to calm: it may just need a more...
The new 0day-vulnerability in Linux 2.6.37 - 3.8.8

Convert PDF to HTML5 without losing formatting

pdf2htmlEX - a great tool to convert PDF documents into normal HTML-page with formatting. Converter is surprisingly good at handling various documents, including research papers, journals, and other formulas.

A few examples for demonstration.

Typography (LaTeX): HTML / PDF
Cheat...
Convert PDF to HTML5 without losing formatting

Hardware acceleration of H.264 in Firefox

In this most recent build of Firefox Nightly (next stable Firefox 23) includes support for H.264 video hardware acceleration.

This feature will be included in the stable releases for different operating systems.For example, in Firefox 21 (in a few days), hardware support for H.264 is...
Hardware acceleration of H.264 in Firefox