Ignorance of insecurity does not get you security. We need to examine voting machines, SCADA systems, IOT and other important items in our lives. The investigation of these devices by the hacker community is a service, not a threat.
For my tech friends, consider using your GPUs to help analyze Coronavirus. The Folding at Home effort (remember SETI@Home?) is working on COVID-19 research. Install the software and donate cycles to the cause.
foldingathome.org/2020/02/27/fol…
Use the link at the top "start folding."
Claims of Chinese researchers breaking "military grade encryption" with a quantum computer are totally overblown. They attacked a trivial 22 bit key and used a quantum annealing architecture. Still not cryptographically relevant and not a quantum computer. Still not breaking RSA!
What the researcher did is they used a commercial quantum computer as a service from D-Wave to factorize a 22-bit RSA public key. For reference, RSA 512-bit was successfully factorized by Herman te Riele with the advanced technology of 1999 desktops ...
Chinese Backdoor Alert! Security enhancements on Mifare Classic cards used in hotels/business contain a supply chain backdoor making reading & exploitation trivial. Great paper by Philippe Teuwen Quarkslab eprint.iacr.org/2024/1275.pdf Watch your Chinese supply chains carefully folks!
“At times, [it] takes a hacker to defeat a hacker,” says former NSA Director of Cybersecurity Rob Joyce. He says the NSA has decided to put more resources into the foreign threat of ransomware attacks. cbsn.ws/3VY8fjB
GHIDRA 9.0.1 has been posted.
Contains both improvements and a couple dozen bug fixes, including the security issues identified with the release.
Download:
ghidra-sre.org
Info on changes:
ghidra-sre.org/releaseNotes.h…
