The BIG news in the auto world is that the giant car manufacturer, Volkswagen, had hidden lines of code inside their car computers which can detect when the car is being tested by emission authorities in a lab!! As soon…
The Volkswagen scam
Category: Computing
Odds and sorts about the wonderful world of computing
Boston Dynamics – robots extraordinaire
Some readers may recall my article, “Sex Robots“, when I mentioned Big Dog by Boston Dynamics. I also mentioned that the 2009 Big Dog design shown was a bit old but it must have been good enough to convince Google…
Stack Overflow – does it compute?
Stack Overflow is a cool site. There is always something weird on it which relates to computing or science or mathematics or something totally different again. But Stack Overflow is not just an eclectic Q & A site for bored…
Microsoft not going to use Windows
Yupe, you’ve read that right. We know that Bill Gates has banned Apple products from his home. I don’t blame him because Apple has always been at the forefront of design and technology leaving Billy Boy’s offerings look very amateurish…
WordPress sites hacked – not !!!!!
So, here I was on a lazy Sunday afternoon catching on some reading and my eye caught this headline.. “Active malware campaign uses thousands of WordPress sites to infect visitors” YIKES!!! Boy, was I worried when I read it My…
SYNful Knock – Analysis by FireEye
This is an analysis of SYNful Knock by the people who discovered it – Mandiant/FireEye. From my reading of the article, it seems that the router implant was handcrafted on a router-by-router basis. Also, the original attack seems to require…
Do you have SYNful Knock installed?
Cisco has provided a method of determining if your router has the SYNful Knock router implant. ========================================================= http://blogs.cisco.com/security/offline-analysis-of-ios-image-integrity Cisco Blog > Security Offline Analysis of IOS Image Integrity Vafa Izadinia | February 23, 2012 at 1:01 pm PST Forensic…
Cisco’s response to SYNful Knock
This is Cisco’s offical response to SYNful Knock. ============================================== https://blogs.cisco.com/security/synful-knock Cisco Blog > Security SYNful Knock: Detecting and Mitigating Cisco IOS Software Attacks Omar Santos | September 15, 2015 at 12:06 am PST Historically, threat actors have targeted network devices…
SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM :)
Yeeee Haaah!! I have received my first spam message!! Akismet identified it first go. Here’s the text of the spam I received. “Hello, I think your website might be having browser compatibility issues. When I look at your blog in…
OECD report on computers in schools
There I was just doing some light reading and I stumbled across a press release by the OECD saying that computers in schools do not translate to smarter school kids. Don’t believe me? Here, read it yourself from the OECD…