Tesla App Two-Factor Authentication Coming Soon According to Elon Musk
Without a doubt, Tesla’s electric cars are the best vehicles on the market right now. They attract people with modern design, high efficiency, and the low cost of maintenance and operation. These vehicles are generally considered pretty theft-proof, thanks to always-on GPS which lets owners track their cars. But numerous smart features still make these cars extremely vulnerable to hacking. That’s how the two-factor...
The Petya Virus: How It All Went
27 June 2017 could be called Ukrainian history’s “black cyber Tuesday”. On that day, the NotPetya (Petya.A, ExPetr) attack began, affecting almost all sectors in the country: communications, energy, banking, media, and transportation. The Petya ransomware is far from the first test of the strength of Ukraine’s infrastructure. Such attacks have been attempted at least three times. The first two attacks...
How to Make a Profit out of Voice Call Based 2FA
You thought all hackers are bad? It’s not so simple: in IT circles there has long been a distinction between “black hat” and “white hat” code crackers. The first are easily understood: they are using their skills to deprive users and companies of money, and also prey on other valuable information for the purposes of identity theft. But there are those who engage in hacking, not for gain, but with humanitarian and scientific motives....
Panama Papers Leak – Evil or Good?
Information bomb, known as the “Panama Papers Leak,” was planted a year ago, although it was detonated April 3, 2016, when the Panama documents were put on the Internet. It all started in 2015 when an unknown person proposed the journalists of the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung the official documents of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. The source didn’t ask for money, but only for preserving his anonymity....
A Wrong Lesson on Information Security
Recently, the CNBC news website gave a quite controversial lesson on information security. The author of the article, indirectly related to the information security issue (it said about the confrontation between Apple and the FBI), decided to add a text box for the passwords strength check. Most likely, this form was included as a “salt” to attract more attention. The author of the publication didn’t aim to improve...