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Breaking electronic locks — just like in those hacker movies

08

Aug

2017

What do movie characters typically do when there is a door with an electronic lock on their way? They call a hacker, of course. The hacker connects some sort of contraption to the lock. During the next several seconds, the device picks every possible combination and shows it on its (obligatory, bright) segment display. Voilà! The door is open.

Category Hacker Security Written by Kaspersky 0 Comments

Ransomware is Nasty Stuff

10

Nov

2012

A day or two ago, our friends at Symantec released a blog post about the growing success of "ransomware". (They also have a whitepaper here, and a nice gallery of screenshots of several variations here.) Briefly, ransomware is malware that either locks up a computer, or encrypts data files, and then offers to restore access […]

Category Security Written by Blue Coat 0 Comments

TSA website link leads to Blackhole exploit kit

01

Jun

2012

The AVG Web Threats research group has detected an obfuscated redirect on a page belonging to a vendor listed by the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) web site. Visitors following the link on a TSA page were also served exploits via a Blackhole exploit kit. AVG personnel alerted TSA and the vendor to the problem […]

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