These Artists Use Oil, Paint, and Soap to Create Tiny Alien Galaxies. Scientists trying to unlock the secrets of our universe’s origin need to look no further than the photography studio of Thomas Blanchard and Oilhack. The superorder Batoidea, commonly known as “rays,” is full of stingy cuties. The bat ray (Myliobatis californica) is especially adorable, and tragically. Not content with hopping aboard a tour bus or renting a helicopter, professional base jumper Quentin Luçon figured the best way to see the Swiss Alps was to hang. NOTE: If you have a Surface RT or Surface 2, the icon I referenced above won’t be present if Windows 8.1 Update 1 has been installed (Microsoft decided to remove it). By mixing nothing more than paints, oil, and soap, the artists manage to create colorful miniature universes full of strange, tiny alien worlds. Their latest video, Emerald, makes you wonder if NASA should be sending incredibly tiny probes to explore all of these new planets that look vibrant and teeming with life, instead of trying to raise enough money to visit Mars which we’re almost certain is a big red wasteland. Planet Sys. Admin - System Administration, Information Technology, Information Security. For teaching hacking/cybersecurity, I thought I'd create of the most obvious hacks of all time. Not the best hacks, the most sophisticated hacks, or the hacks with the biggest impact, but the most obvious hacks - - ones that even the least knowledgeable among us should be able to understand. Below I propose some hacks that fit this bill, though in no particular order. The reason I'm writing this is that my niece wants me to teach her some hacking. I thought I'd start with the obvious stuff first. Shared Passwords. If you use the same password for every website, and one of those websites gets hacked, then the hacker has your password for all your websites. The reason your Facebook account got hacked wasn't because of anything Facebook did, but because you used the same email- address and password when creating an account on . No, this is the very worst thing you can do. Historian - Here you will find a wealth of resources, from clinical advice to breathtaking erotica, from sweet poetry to motorized dildos, so whether you're a vibrator virtuoso. Read Aunt Gave Me A New Life - Free Sex Story on xHamster.com! I am not sure how I ended up wearing her dress or becoming her bridesmaid. Last updated: 24 July 2017. About This Manual. This is version 11.0 of the manual to the home and professional versions of X Sure, you can the use the same password on all sites you don't care much about, but for Facebook, your email account, and your bank, you should have a unique password, so that when other sites get hacked, your important sites are secure. And yes, it's okay to write down your passwords on paper. Tools: Have. IBeen. Pwned. com. PIN encrypted PDFs.
My accountant emails PDF statements encrypted with the last 4 digits of my Social Security Number. This is not encryption - - a 4 digit number has only 1. PIN numbers for ATM cards work because ATM machines are online, and the machine can reject your card after four guesses. PIN numbers don't work for documents, because they are offline - - the hacker has a copy of the document on their own machine, disconnected from the Internet, and can continue making bad guesses with no restrictions. Passwords protecting documents must be long enough that even trillion upon trillion guesses are insufficient to guess. Tools: Hashcat, John the Ripper. SQL and other injection. The lazy way of combining websites with databases is to combine user input with an SQL statement. This combines code with data, so the obvious consequence is that hackers can craft data to mess with the code. No, this isn't obvious to the general public, but it should be obvious to programmers. The moment you write code that adds unfiltered user- input to an SQL statement, the consequence should be obvious. Back in early days, when . The consequence of executing shell code should've been obvious, but weirdly, it wasn't. The IT guy at the company I worked for back in the late 1. It works because websites will echo back what is sent to them. For example, if you search for Cross Site Scripting with the URL https: //www. If the string is Java. Script code rather than text, then some servers (thought not Google) send back the code in the page in a way that it'll be executed. This is most often used to hack somebody's account: you send them an email or tweet a link, and when they click on it, the Java. Script gives control of the account to the hacker. Cross site injection issues like this should probably be their own category, but I'm including it here for now. More: Wikipedia on SQL injection, Wikipedia on cross site scripting. Tools: Burpsuite, SQLmap. Buffer overflows. In the C programming language, programmers first create a buffer, then read input into it. If input is long than the buffer, then it overflows. The extra bytes overwrite other parts of the program, letting the hacker run code. Again, it's not a thing the general public is expected to know about, but is instead something C programmers should be expected to understand. They should know that it's up to them to check the length and stop reading input before it overflows the buffer, that there's no language feature that takes care of this for them. We are three decades after the first major buffer overflow exploits, so there is no excuse for C programmers not to understand this issue. What makes particular obvious is the way they are wrapped in exploits, like in Metasploit. While the bug itself is obvious that it's a bug, actually exploiting it can take some very non- obvious skill. However, once that exploit is written, any trained monkey can press a button and run the exploit. That's where we get the insult . It had a feature whereby if you send a . The consequence of this was obvious - - hackers could (and did) upload code to take control of the server. This was used in the Morris Worm of 1. Most Internet machines of the day ran Send. Mail, so the worm spread fast infecting most machines. This bug was mostly ignored at the time. It was thought of as a theoretical problem, that might only rarely be used to hack a system. Part of the motivation of the Morris Worm was to demonstrate that such problems was to demonstrate the consequences - - consequences that should've been obvious but somehow were rejected by everyone. More: Wikipedia on Morris Worm. Email Attachments/Links. I'm conflicted whether I should add this or not, because here's the deal: you are supposed to click on attachments and links within emails. That's what they are there for. The difference between good and bad attachments/links is not obvious. Indeed, easy- to- use email systems makes detecting the difference harder. On the other hand, the consequences of bad attachments/links is obvious. That worms like ILOVEYOU spread so easily is because people trusted attachments coming from their friends, and ran them. We have no solution to the problem of bad email attachments and links. Viruses and phishing are pervasive problems. Yet, we know why they exist. Default and backdoor passwords. The Mirai botnet was caused by surveillance- cameras having default and backdoor passwords, and being exposed to the Internet without a firewall. The consequence should be obvious: people will discover the passwords and use them to take control of the bots. Surveillance- cameras have the problem that they are usually exposed to the public, and can't be reached without a ladder - - often a really tall ladder. Therefore, you don't want a button consumers can press to reset to factory defaults. You want a remote way to reset them. Therefore, they put backdoor passwords to do the reset. Such passwords are easy for hackers to reverse- engineer, and hence, take control of millions of cameras across the Internet. The same reasoning applies to . Many users will not change the defaults, leaving a ton of devices hackers can hack. Masscan and background radiation of the Internet. I've written a tool that can easily scan the entire Internet in a short period of time. It surprises people that this possible, but it obvious from the numbers. Internet addresses are only 3. A fast Internet link can easily handle 1 million packets- per- second, so the entire Internet can be scanned in 4. It's basic math. Because it's so easy, many people do it. If you monitor your Internet link, you'll see a steady trickle of packets coming in from all over the Internet, especially Russia and China, from hackers scanning the Internet for things they can hack. People's reaction to this scanning is weirdly emotional, taking is personally, such as: Why are they hacking me? What did I do to them? Great! They are hacking me! That must mean I'm important! Grrr! How dare they?! How can I hack them back for some retribution!? I find this odd, because obviously such scanning isn't personal, the hackers have no idea who you are. Tools: masscan, firewalls. Packet- sniffing, sidejacking. If you connect to the Starbucks Wi. Fi, a hacker nearby can easily eavesdrop on your network traffic, because it's not encrypted. Windows even warns you about this, in case you weren't sure. At Def. Con, they have a . Calling them . Even if the Wi. Fi itself is not encrypted, SSL traffic is. They expect their services to be encrypted, without them having to worry about it. And in fact, most are, especially Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and other major services that won't allow you to log in anymore without encryption. But many services (especially old ones) may not be encrypted. Unless users check and verify them carefully, they'll happily expose passwords. What's interesting about this was 1. SSL to encrypt the passwords, but then used unencrypted connections after that, using . This allowed the cookies to be sniffed and stolen, allowing other people to share the login session. I used this on stage at Black. Hat to connect to somebody's GMail session. Google, and other major websites, fixed this soon after. But it should never have been a problem - - because the sidejacking of cookies should have been obvious. Tools: Wireshark, dsniff. Stuxnet LNK vulnerability. Again, this issue isn't obvious to the public, but it should've been obvious to anybody who knew how Windows works. When Windows loads a . Dll. Main(). A Windows link file (. It does this by loading the . Dll. Main. Thus, a hacker could put on a USB drive a . I say this is obvious because I did this, created . Dll. Main code. The consequence should've been obvious to me, but I totally missed the connection. We all missed the connection, for decades. Social Engineering and Tech Support . This probably should be up near #1 in terms of obviousness. The classic example of social engineering is when you call tech support and tell them you've lost your password, and they reset it for you with minimum of questions proving who you are. For example, you set the volume on your computer really loud and play the sound of a crying baby in the background and appear to be a bit frazzled and incoherent, which explains why you aren't answering the questions they are asking. They, understanding your predicament as a new parent, will go the extra mile in helping you, resetting . It's quite easy in many cases to call up the registrar and convince them to transfer a domain name. This has been used in lots of hacks. It's really hard to defend against.
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