CCC – Page 2 – Computer Security Articles

Going green in IT: How and why

January 17, 2020 admin 36c3, Business, CCC, Chaos Communication Congress, ecology, Infrastructure, SMB

Credit to Author: Alex Perekalin| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 12:03:18 +0000

Four steps to reduce your company’s IT carbon footprint — and save money.

Can you trust digital signatures in PDF files?

January 14, 2020 admin 36c3, 36С3, Business, CCC, Chaos Communication Congress, cryptography, digital signature, PDF, SMB

Credit to Author: Nikolay Pankov| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:31:34 +0000

Researchers try to modify the contents of a signed PDF file without invalidating the signature.

Kaspersky Security

Open source is not a cure-all

January 8, 2020 admin 36c3, Business, CCC, Chaos Communication Congress, enterprise, hardware, Open Source

Credit to Author: Nikolay Pankov| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 17:09:43 +0000

A Chaos Communication Congress speaker reflects on whether using open-source hardware can solve trust problems in hardware.

Kaspersky Security

The connected product life cycle dilemma

January 7, 2020 admin 36c3, Business, CCC, Chaos Communication Congress, connected cars, enterprise, Internet of Things, IoT, KasperskyOS

Credit to Author: Alex Perekalin| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2020 11:43:48 +0000

Longer product life cycles mean sustainability; shorter ones are easier in terms of support. Which should you choose?

MalwareBytes Security

The lucrative business of Bitcoin sextortion scams (updated)

September 4, 2019 admin 163qcNngcPxk7njkBGU3GGtxdhi74ycqzk, 1KE1EqyKLPzLWQ3BhRz2g1MHh5nws2TRk, 3HXdb3HAw1wVzU9b7ZSigvGaStd8KoZ3zJ, bitcoin, Bitcoin sextortion, Blackmail, CCC, Chaos Computer Club, ChaosCC, Digital Shadows, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, scams, sextortion email, sextortion scams

Credit to Author: Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Sextortion scams are back on the radar, and many say they’re on the uptick. We investigate an email campaign to see how lucrative the business of sextortion can be.

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Kaspersky Security

A small sex toy with big problems

January 15, 2019 admin 35c3, 35с3, CCC, Chaos Communication Congress, Internet of Things, sex, Technology, Threats, vibrator

Credit to Author: Alex Perekalin| Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 19:25:31 +0000

Analysis of a German sex toy reveals all sorts of vulnerabilities.

Kaspersky Security

How to hack a hardware cryptocurrency wallet

January 10, 2019 admin 35c3, bitcoin, CCC, Chaos Communication Congress, cryptocurrency, cryptowallet, hardware wallets, Technology, Threats

Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:56:02 +0000

Security researchers found several ways to compromise hardware cryptocurrency wallets made by Ledger and Trezor.

Kaspersky Security

SiliVaccine: Antivirus from North Korea

January 9, 2019 admin 35c3, 35с3, Antivirus, CCC, Chaos Communication Congress, Darkhotel, SiliVaccine, Technology, Threats

Credit to Author: Alex Perekalin| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 15:40:52 +0000

Experts discovered lots of interesting things in the code of North Korean antivirus SiliVaccine.