article thumbnail

Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. From one of his ads in 2005: Domains For Projects Advertised By Spam I can register bulletproof domains for sites and projects advertised by spam(of course they must be legal).

article thumbnail

MY TAKE: Why security innovations paving the way for driverless cars will make IoT much safer

The Last Watchdog

Intelligent computing systems have been insinuating themselves into our homes and public gathering places for a while now. Driverless autos, trucks and military transport vehicles are on a fast track for wide deployment in the next five years. military and intelligence agencies. Get ready for smart ground transportation.

IoT 133
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Capturing Paper Documents - Best Practices and Common Questions

AIIM

To a greater or lesser degree, most significant information management initiatives will involve a scanning capability to capture hard copy paper documents as electronic images. First, once a document is captured electronically, it can be made accessible through the IT infrastructure to others at remote locations. This is more cost?effective

Paper 90
article thumbnail

On Open Platforms, Wifi, Home Automation, and Kitty Litter

John Battelle's Searchblog

Another wonderful example is the Global Positioning System (GPS), once the realm only of the United States military, but now the driver of countless commercial opportunities around the globe (again thanks to decisions made during the Clinton administration). Comcast has no say in the matter ( so far ).

article thumbnail

The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. And of course, when you say things like that you get a lot of press. The airline industry wrote it off as an unlikely scenario. So one security researcher decided to poke the tiger. And ABC News.

article thumbnail

The Hacker Mind Podcast: A Hacker From Hollywood

ForAllSecure

He told her he really wanted to create faster planes so that he could sell them to the US military. This was written for 16 synchronized player pianos, accompanied by two grand pianos, as well as three xylophones, four brass drums, a gong, three airplane propellers, seven electric bells, and of course a siren.

article thumbnail

Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016.

Passwords 226