“MAKE Magazine has put together their 3rd annual ‘State of Open Source Hardware 2008′ — in just a few years, the number of projects has grown from a small handful to an amazing 60+ offerings. Similar to open source software, open source hardware is available with source code, schematics, firmware and bills of materials, and [...]
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killmofasta notes an LA Times story on a severe and widespread attack on US military computers that may have originated in Russia. Turns out the military’s recent ban on flash drives was a precursor to this attack, which was significant enough that the President and the Defense Secretary were briefed on it. “The ‘malware’ strike, [...]
The rapid advancement of cyber attacks and the emergence of cyber warfare have caught government and military leaders around the world off guard. Decision making in time requiring defensive measures or military crisis is guided by doctrine and rules of engagement, but in the case of cyber attacks and cyber warfare they do not currently [...]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) won an injunction today against software vendor and keylogger developer CyberSpy. The US district court ruling prohibits CyberSpy from selling or operating its RemoteSpy software package. Read More… [From US court orders keylogger CyberSpy to halt software sales]
Martin Beck and Erik Tews have published details of their attacks on WPA wireless networks. The attack is essentially a variant of the chopchop attack used against WEP secured networks, which surfaced in early 2005 [From Security experts reveal details of WPA hack]
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In the recent Zhuhai airshow (still ongoing), we’ve seen a plethora of UAV/UCAV models coming out. A lot of them seem to be concepts, abandoned projects, but there are a couple of brands standing out: CH-3 and WingLong. If you do search on Google News recently, you might be able to find the condensed version [...]
There are some fresh details on the Russian submarine accident TheCustodian covered last night. According to several news reports this morning, seventeen of the dead were employees of the Amur Ship-Building Enterprise while only three were sailors. The government released a list of 20 names this morning, all were Russian. While the name of the [...]
“The reports earlier today on WPA’s TKIP key type being cracked were incorrect. I spoke at length with Erik Tews, the joint author of the paper that discloses a checksum weakness in TKIP that allows individual short packets to be decrypted without revealing the TKIP key. I wrote this up for Ars Technica with quite [...]
