The Machines That Betrayed Their Masters

Your machine (mobile phone, bluetooth device, router etc etc) may betrayed you and can be used to detect your position or even invade your privacy. They are watching you, stay alert.

The devices we carry betray us to those who want to invade our privacy by emitting uniquely identifiable signals. The most common example is the wireless signals emitted by your mobile phone (even whilst tucked safely into your pocket). Such signals may be used to track you, or be used toward more malicious intent.

This talk will discuss the process the author has gone through to build a resilient, modular, reliable, distributed, tracking framework - originally spawned as a PoC tool in 2012 by the name 'Snoopy'. The dog is back, and with more bite - looking beyond just Wi-Fi. Also, he's now airborne via a quadcopter.

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by Malik korrich ~ mardi 28 octobre 2014 0 commentaires

Building Trojan Hardware at Home

Malware, Viruses and Trojan horse can destroy your computer and network; most of the time they are software based, but have you ever imagined that a hardware based trojan might also destroy or simply steal private information from your computer; consider a recent celebrity hack.

 

There are many tutorials, guide and codes are available online to program a Trojan horse but at the moment community is not focusing on hardware based Trojan, but you should focus. In this article, I will share a conspicuous presentation and video demonstration on "Building Trojan Hardware at Home" by JP Dunning, presented at BlactHat Asia 2014 event.

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by Malik korrich ~ mardi 9 septembre 2014 0 commentaires