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miercuri, 14 ianuarie 2015
luni, 5 ianuarie 2015
Many people believes that fingerprint scanning technology is the best way to secure iPhone. Everyone know that this is an unique locking system nobody can hack into phones without owner’s touch. But, what if your fingerprints may not keep your iPhone safe any more.?
Someone has figured out how to use photos and commercially available software to break through an iPhone 6’s fingerprint sensor, which is known as Touch ID.
In a cyber security convention in Hamburg last week, a German hacking group, known as Chaos Computer Club claims that it can recreate your fingerprints from the other side of the world. they claims there is a way to copy your fingerprint, using your picture.
In the past, we have read many forgers have used tape, a scanner, glue and some plastic material to build a gummy fingerprint that can fool scanners. But the Chaos Computer Club says this is the first time when fingerprints have been spoofed from afar. The group’s leader “Starbug” said to CNN, he was able to recreate the thumbprint of the German Minister of Defense Ursula von der Leyen, from several news photos. He said he had HD photos of German Minister of Defense Leyen’s fingers while she was at a presentation in October — standing nine feet away from the official. The gruop leader said he wasn’t able to verify von der Leyen’s fingerprint was accurate, but he was still confident it was a workable copy.
There will be no need to steal objects carrying the fingerprints anymore. After this talk, politicians will presumably wear gloves when talking in public.–Chaos Computer Club.
Whatever the hackers said but experts believe that there is no need to worry. The fingerprints are still more secure than regular passwords.
According to Dr. Elizabeth Cohen, Communication Studies Professor at West Virginia University:
Even though people are going to develop ways to hack fingerprint scanners, this doesn’t negate their effectiveness. Just like people find ways to hack into passwords, they’re going to find ways to hack into fingerprints. But in many ways, this system is still more secure than a traditional password.
The news was originally appeared at CNN .
sâmbătă, 27 decembrie 2014
AirAsia Flight QZ8501 lost contact with air traffic control in Jakarta some 42 minutes after takeoff. The plane was flying from the Indonesian city of Surabaya and due to land in Singapore at 8:30am. The airline said the plane had requested a "deviation due to en route weather before communication with the aircraft was lost."
At the present time we unfortunately have no further information regarding the status of the passengers and crew members on board… At this time, search and rescue operations are in progress and AirAsia is cooperating fully and assisting the rescue service.
vineri, 26 decembrie 2014
joi, 25 decembrie 2014
Good to know:Fact: About 20% of all passwords are easily guessed. Example of bad passwords: password, 12345, qwerty, yourname, yourbirthday, etc.
1. The best way to prevent someone from getting your passwords, is to have a strong password to being with. The best passwords are 8+ characters long, contain at least 1 capital letter, and contain at least 1 number. This will make it almost impossible for your password to be bruteforced. What is Bruteforcing? Its when a hacker runs a program that trys every letter/number/symbol combination to guess your password. If you follow these tips for a stronger password, it will take years to bruteforce your password.
2. Security questions. The easiest way someone can gain access into your accounts, is to guess the answers to the security questions of your account. These are the questions you're asked when you first make an email account, like What was your first dogs name?. Make sure the security questions you choose have answers that aren't easily guessable. If you have a security question that asks Where did you meet your spouse? this is a bad question to choose. Anyone who browses your facebook or asks someone you know can get the answer to this. So make sure you choose questions NO ONE knows the answer to, or make the answers something only you would know.
3. Try not to use the same passwords for all of your accounts. Make your e-mail password different from your facebook password, and so on. If someone manages to get one of your passwords, they will have access to ALL your accounts if they use the same password.
1. The best way to prevent someone from getting your passwords, is to have a strong password to being with. The best passwords are 8+ characters long, contain at least 1 capital letter, and contain at least 1 number. This will make it almost impossible for your password to be bruteforced. What is Bruteforcing? Its when a hacker runs a program that trys every letter/number/symbol combination to guess your password. If you follow these tips for a stronger password, it will take years to bruteforce your password.
2. Security questions. The easiest way someone can gain access into your accounts, is to guess the answers to the security questions of your account. These are the questions you're asked when you first make an email account, like What was your first dogs name?. Make sure the security questions you choose have answers that aren't easily guessable. If you have a security question that asks Where did you meet your spouse? this is a bad question to choose. Anyone who browses your facebook or asks someone you know can get the answer to this. So make sure you choose questions NO ONE knows the answer to, or make the answers something only you would know.
3. Try not to use the same passwords for all of your accounts. Make your e-mail password different from your facebook password, and so on. If someone manages to get one of your passwords, they will have access to ALL your accounts if they use the same password.
One thing is very true about hackers that they are an expert in their domain and this is exactly what it meant in 1960’s, ‘expert programmer’, without associating any negative activity to it. In today’s world the word ‘hacker’ has a connotation of someone using illegal means using computers to achieve something criminal. In fact, it is very amusing that some of the god-fathers of computer technology started as a hacker and build an entire empire out of the lessons learned in their hacking days. Most famous of them all are the founders of the giant Apple Inc.: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
In 1970’s, the two Steves designed and sold a device named as ‘Blue box’ which was a phone phreaking device. In those days, the telephone exchanges had operators who used to connect manually to form a route of the call. Later, they were automated and the automatic exchanges communicated with each other using a series of audible tones as signals to route calls. The blue box was designed to emulate these audio tones. The audio tones were played to the microphone of the phone and the exchanges deceivably conceive them as legitimate signals coming from each other enabling the hacker to decode all the signals and potentially giving him the capability to hack the calls and exchanges and even manipulating phone bills. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak realized the commercial potential of their invention and started selling them.
Later, when they were nearly caught, they ditched their illegal invention and moved on to greener pastures and greater technological adventures. One wonders, how many of the technological giants today would have indulged in some form of such activity that would be called hacking and illegal. The same path that makes these hackers so skillful opens new doors for innovation. Wonder how many aspiring future Steve Jobs are jailed for hacking. Wonder if Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak would have been caught and jailed would we still had the marvelous company called Apple Inc. Imagine if iPod, iPhone and iPad would not have been invented, what would have been the current technological landscape.
In 1970’s, the two Steves designed and sold a device named as ‘Blue box’ which was a phone phreaking device. In those days, the telephone exchanges had operators who used to connect manually to form a route of the call. Later, they were automated and the automatic exchanges communicated with each other using a series of audible tones as signals to route calls. The blue box was designed to emulate these audio tones. The audio tones were played to the microphone of the phone and the exchanges deceivably conceive them as legitimate signals coming from each other enabling the hacker to decode all the signals and potentially giving him the capability to hack the calls and exchanges and even manipulating phone bills. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak realized the commercial potential of their invention and started selling them.
Later, when they were nearly caught, they ditched their illegal invention and moved on to greener pastures and greater technological adventures. One wonders, how many of the technological giants today would have indulged in some form of such activity that would be called hacking and illegal. The same path that makes these hackers so skillful opens new doors for innovation. Wonder how many aspiring future Steve Jobs are jailed for hacking. Wonder if Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak would have been caught and jailed would we still had the marvelous company called Apple Inc. Imagine if iPod, iPhone and iPad would not have been invented, what would have been the current technological landscape.
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