Path locking in Python3 , presentation by Andrew Peel to the Melbourne Python Users Group (MPUG) on 2 October, 2017. A 15 minute presentation and demonstration describing a short python module that provides shared locks, applied to strings representing paths on a file system. The slides from the presentation are attached in the link below. … Read More.
When patching holes in your core security kernel takes upwards of three years on average from discovery to patch release, it obviously raises concerns. Add in the view of security analysts that the basic approach of the security design is outdated and not responsive when under attack, and the picture grows ever more worrisome. It … Read More.
Security experts have long assessed the IoT (Internet of Things) as being a hacker’s paradise in its current format. Last week saw the biggest DDoS attack ever recorded , in terms of hostile traffic bandwidth. French web host OVH was the victim. DDoS attacks have been around for a long time in Internet terms. What … Read More.
The latest version of Capcom’s Street Fighter V for Windows includes an update that installs an unpublicized rootkit. The company claims it is intended to prevent players from cheating but its poor design allows any installed software to access the rootkit. It is an open back door to full kernel privileges and provides the capability … Read More.
If we didn’t know if before, we definitely did by the end of 2014: hacking and cybercrime are on the rise, and all of us are at risk. From the nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence, to Sony’s private staff emails, to stolen credit card details, 2014 was filled with some of the biggest and most … Read More.
Public wifi is not safe and neither is it secure. As an experiment, one journalist took a hacker to a café to see just what damage he could do by hacking into the public wifi. Within 20 minutes the hacker knew the names, passwords and personal lives of almost everyone around them. He knew everything … Read More.