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Careless but Not Criminal | Unfilter 195

chris — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 21:02:11 +0000

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By our estimate Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election since our last episode, we’ll run down the last two amazing weeks for her. Why NATO’s military moves are creating a ticking time bomb & the latest cyber threat powered by encryption.

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Politics of Encryption | TTT 192

chris — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 10:16:03 +0000

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The Plex forums have been hacked, the fascinating corruption around the Silk Road case & David Cameron doubles down on backdoors in encryption.

Plus the big tech rumor of the week & more!

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Slippery Bitcoin Road | Tech Talk Today 117

chris — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:50:15 +0000

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We take a look at all sides of the recent Bitcoin crash & the fallout for the Miners. The Silk Road trial gets underway, with a major problem Plus how CISPA 3.0 could create a cyber police state.

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David Cameron seeks cooperation of US president over encryption crackdown | UK news

David Cameron is to urge Barack Obama to pressure internet firms such as Twitter and Facebook to do more to cooperate with Britain’s intelligence agencies as they seek to track the online activities of Islamist extremists.

Bitcoin Volatility Puts Miners Under Pressure

“The virtual currency Bitcoin lost 21 per cent of its value yesterday, equating to a total loss this year of 44 per cent. Reports have suggested that this rapid fall is squeezing computer supporting systems and is raising alarm about its future viability. Bitcoin’s value fell to $179.37, 85 per cent lower than its record peak of $1,165 at the end of 2013. In total, nearly $11.3bn has been lost in Bitcoin’s value since its 2013 high. The decline has raised concern for Bitcoin ‘miners’ who support the transactions made in the digital currency, and whose profits become squeezed as its price falls against traditional currencies.”

Bitcoin Price Continues to Fall, Breaks $200 Mark

CryptoWall ransomware is back with new version after two months of silence | PCWorld

CryptoWall is a sophisticated ransomware program that encrypts the victims’ files with a strong cryptographic algorithm. Users are asked to pay the equivalent of $500 in bitcoin virtual currency in order to receive the decryption key that allows them to recover their files.

Crowti update – CryptoWall 3.0 – Microsoft Malware Protection Center – Site Home – TechNet Blogs

There’s a Problem In the Silk Road Trial: the Jury Doesn’t Get the Internet – Slashdot

“The trial began this week for Ross Ulbricht, the 30-year-old Texas man accused of being the mastermind behind the dark net drug market, Silk Road. But as the jury began hearing testimony in the case, it was clear the technological knowledge gap would impede the proceedings. Judge Katherine Forrest said right off the bat when the case began that “highly technical” issues must be made clear to the jury. “If I believe things are not understandable to the average juror, we will talk about what might be a reasonable way to proceed at that time,” she said. After the first day of proceedings, Forrest told the prosecution to be more clear with explanations of concepts central to the case, noting she was unhappy with its “mumbo-jumbo” explanation of the anonymizing service Tor. She also requested all readings of chat transcripts include emoticons.”

Errata Security: Obama’s War on Hackers

In next week’s State of the Union address, President Obama will propose new laws against hacking that could make either retweeting or clicking on the above link illegal. The new laws make it a felony to intentionally access unauthorized information even if it’s been posted to a public website. The new laws make it a felony to traffic in information like passwords, where “trafficking” includes posting a link.

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Olympic Fear Games | Unfilter 84

chris — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:47:22 +0000

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The Winter Propaganda Games are in full force, ramping up before the actual games begin and the media working in hand with egomaniac politicians would have you believe the Olympics are taking place in the middle of a war zone.

Then the GCHQ, the NSA, and the Canadian spy agencies spend some more time in the light, as new revelations have come out. We’ll bring you up to date.

Plus an update from across the pond, our follow up, and much much more.

On this week’s episode of, Unfilter.

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President Obama taps Adm. Mike Rogers to run NSA

Rogers, who today runs the Navy’s Fleet Cyber Command, oversees a total force of approximately 15,000 sailors and civilians – plus contractors- of which about 5,000 are specifically charged with giving the Navy the same kind of reach and flexibility in cyberspace that it has at sea.

4 Things You Need to Know About Future NSA Director Michael Rogers

“The network must be treated as a weapons system as we continue the fight to maintain our advantage in cyberspace, and thus across the other four war fighting domains: sea, air, land and space,” he said in a Q&A on the Feb. 2013 issue of Military Information Technology magazine, which dubbed him the “Cyberspace Warrior.”

NSA nominee Michael S. Rogers has made fans during a steady rise to the top t

“He was the best there was, and he was going to lead us into the cyberfuture,” said retired Adm. Gary Roughead, who in 2011 picked Rogers to head Fleet Cyber Command, the Navy’s cyber organization, which was seen as a steppingstone.

CSEC used airport Wi-Fi to track Canadian travellers: Edward Snowden documents – Politics – CBC News

A top secret document retrieved by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden and obtained by CBC News shows that Canada’s electronic spy agency used information from the free internet service at a major Canadian airport to track the wireless devices of thousands of ordinary airline passengers for days after they left the terminal.

After reviewing the document, one of Canada’s foremost authorities on cyber-security says the clandestine operation by the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) was almost certainly illegal.

Joint Committee on National Security Strategy has a chat with PM David Cameron

David Cameron: ‘I don’t think Snowden’s had an enormous public impact’ (Wired UK)

“I think the public reaction as I judge it has not been one of
‘shock horror!’ but one of ‘intelligence agencies carry out
intelligence work: good’,” Cameron said. Apparently Mr Cameron
hasn’t seen this
YouGov poll from June 2013, which showed that 56 percent of
people think that Edward Snowden did the right thing (compared to
27 percent of people who think he did the wrong thing) and 52
percent think he shouldn’t be prosecuted.

David Cameron: TV crime dramas show need for ‘snooper’s charter’

Mr Cameron highlighted how crimes in television dramas are solved by tracking
the use of mobile phones. He warned that investigators will lose this
ability as criminals and terrorists resort to using the internet instead.

Earlier this week Mr Cameron told BBC Radio 2 that he likes to relax by
watching Elementary, a modern-day version of Sherlock Homes set in the US,
and Homeland, a thriller about a CIA agent on the trail of a soldier she
believes is an Al-Qaida operative.

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Winter Propaganda Games

Nightly News: Hacked Within Minutes: Sochi Visitors Face Internet Minefield

The U.S. State Department has told Americans coming to Sochi that they should have “no expectation of privacy,” even in their hotel rooms.

Cybersecurity expert explains the risks at Sochi Olympics

A July 2013 article in the Washington Times reveals that there was a significant cybersecurity threat during the 2012 London Olympic Games. “There was a credible [threat of] attack on the electricity infrastructure supporting the Games,” said Oliver Hoare, head of Olympic cybersecurity.

United States reveals ‘specific’ threats to Olympic Games

“There are a number of specific threats of varying degrees of credibility that we’re tracking,” he said. “And we’re working very closely with the Russians and with other partners to monitor any threats we see and to disrupt those.”

“The primary threat, from a terrorism perspective, comes from Imarat Kavkaz, probably the most prominent terrorist group in Russia. It’s made its intent clear to seek to carry out attacks in the run-up to the Games,” said Olsen. “We think the greater danger from a terrorist perspective is in potential for attacks to occur outside of the actual venues for the Games themselves in the area surrounding Sochi or outside of Sochi in the region.”

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DEFCON Brings the Scary | TechSNAP 18

chris — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:42:08 +0000

This week on TechSNAP:

The UK Prime Minister wants a Kill switch for social media, ebay upgrades their servers to SSD, and you won’t believe the costs, and we take a peak at Microsoft’s data center in a box!

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UK PM David Cameron is proposing that the police, intelligence agencies and telecom industry investigate if it would be right and technically feasible to disable access to social networks during times of civil unrest
“Everyone watching these horrific actions will be struck by how they were organised via social media”
This is obviously the wrong way to solve the problem, and it will never work. Even if the telcos block access to facebook and twitter via the Internet and cellular networks, rioters could just use text message trees like those that were used to organize the riots in Egypt.
Some are even proposing entirely disabling the cellular networks in affected areas, however this would be seriously disruptive considering that many in the UK only have cellular phones. Leaving citizens without access to emergency services would obviously be untenable.
Even if the UK government was successful in blocking access to the major social networks, protesters could use other networks, there are an infinite number of competing services. Protesters could also use proxies and other techniques to mask their access to social media. This is common place in workplaces that block access to the sites.
A number of people have already been arrested for posting messages on facebook that were said to be ‘inciting violence’ and ‘public disorder’
More detailed article from the BBC

Denial of Service Attack results in suspended trading on the Hang Seng Stock Exchange

An attack against a site used to post official announcements about issues on the Hang Seng stock exchange resulting in the site being unreachable
Trading in stock issues that were to make important price affecting announcements was suspended.
Trading of shares in HSBC, Cathay Pacific, China Power International and the Hong Kong exchange itself, among others, was suspended
If the site remains offline, the Hang Seng exchange will find an alternate way to release the announcements and trading will resume
Earlier this year the US NASDAQ exchange revealed that cyber attackers had planted malicious code on its “Directors Desk” web application

eBay begins migration to pure SSDs in its datacenters

Approximately half of eBay’s 4000 VMs are now backed purely by SSD storage
The average time to deploy a VM has dropped from 45 minutes to 5
Previously, eBay had been using 15k RPM drives via Fibre Channel
One rack full of SSDs is equivalent in performance to eight or nine racks of the previous drives
After replacing 100TB of storage, a 50% reduction in rack space, a 78% drop in power consumption and a five-fold boost in I/O performance were realized
The appliance eBay is using does not use traditional hard drive form factor SSDs, but rather 2U modules of pure flash storage via a 6 Gbit/sec SAS interface.
Storage is priced at $10,000 per Terabyte, and comes in 2.5TB, 5TB, and 10TB modules

Radios used by US Federal Law Enforcement suffer Security Flaws

The P25 Radios used by many Federal Law Enforcement Agencies support encryption, but not always use it. Many messages are sent in the clear, even when the users believe they are communicating securely
This vulnerability results in trivial passive attacks, where the supposedly secure communications can be eaves dropped on
The P25 Radios are also subject to active attacks. An attacker with very modest resources is able to jam specific types of communication to and from the P25. This would allow an attacker to block LEOs in the area from sending or receiving encrypted messages.
The available symmetric encryption systems are DES, 3DES and AES. Obviously the first two options have not been considered secure for many years.
Because the radios are based on a best-effort protocol, and do not have the ability to retransmit garbled frames, advanced encryption mechanisms like CBC (Cipher Block Chaining) cannot be used. This also means that MAC (Message Authentication Code) cannot be used to verify that the incoming transmissions have not been altered.
Because of this, it is possible for an attacker to impersonate a legitimate user, inject voice and data traffic, and replay captured traffic resulting in false signals, even when the messages are encrypted
PDF of the official University of Pennsylvania study

Defcon presentation claims MITM attack on 4G and CDMA mobile phones

Reports indicate that a successful Man-in-the-Middle attack was executed against devices in and around the Defcon venue.
The attackers were able to gain permanent kernel-level root access in some Android and PC devices by using rootkits and non-persistent user space access in some other devices. In both cases, whoever launched this attack against both CDMA and 4G devices was able to steal data and monitor conversations.
It is speculated that the attacker was able to inject specially crafted packets in to the data streams, possibly displaying prompts to the user, that if accepted would install the rootkit
Once the device is compromised, it is trivial to monitor ongoing communications or steal the 4G encryption key

A tour of Microsoft’s cloud data centers

Microsoft’s newest data center designs are modular and containerized
The new design allows them to bring new data centers online much more quickly
The new designs allow the contains to be ‘plug and play’, and results in far less packing materials being required

Round Up

Bitcoin Blaster

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