Adding an extra layer of security to your online accounts is a fundamental step to protect your digital life from hackers, but what’s the point if the new methods are just as vulnerable as the old ones? But let’s back up for a second.
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My mirror doesn’t come to life and tell me about the rest of my day when I walk in bleary-eyed to the bathroom, as much as I wish it did.
An always-on dashboard relaying to me my calendar appointments and the weather would both help me start my day with a better understanding of what I need to get done, and keep me from walking through the city in the rain. Fortunately, with a little tinkering (Linux and Raspberry) you can turn whatever devices you have lying around into your own DIY status board.
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Mimipenguin is a free and open source, simple yet powerful Shell/Python script used to dump the login credentials (usernames and passwords) from the current Linux desktop user and it has been tested on various Linux distributions.
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An audience of security experts attending a cybersecurity conference at the World Forum in The Hague (The Netherlands) on Tuesday were shocked when a demonstration done by an 11-year-old “cyber ninja” showed the dismal cyber security standards that are prevailing in technology.
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Raspberry Pi has floored the tech community yet again, with the launch of the Raspberry Pi Zero. With similar specs to the Raspberry Pi B+, the latest iteration of the hobby computing line will allow users to make their microcomputing projects even more micro without sacrificing performance.
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If I told you this could be a phishing site, would you believed me? tl;dr: check out the proof-of-concept Punycode makes it possible to register domains with foreign characters. It works by converting individual domain label to an alternative format using only ASCII characters.
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David Venable spent time as an employee of the National Security Agency”Privacy as we know it is dead”, said David Venable of Masergy Communications, as he began his talk, Breaking Big Data: Evading Analysis of the Metadata of Your Life at BlackHat Europe 2016.
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Six months ago, Google offered to pay US$200,000 to any researcher who could remotely hack into an Android device by knowing only the victim’s phone number and email address. No one stepped up to the challenge.
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