The February issue of MIT Technology Review reviews a 51% attack on Ethereum Classic. The article also covers similar attacks on lower value crypto currencies and its progress to now attacking top 20 currencies. Also covered (again) are the current issues with Smart Contracts.
These issues represent the Damocles sword of Crypto Currencies, the openness of its approach is also its biggest weakness.
Month: April 2021
Apple HW can still be hacked
As you may remember the introduction of Apple’s M1 CPU’s there was a lot of discussion on the inclusion of the T2 chip and its impacts on upgrades and 3rd party HW. As highlighted in the article on Tom’s hardware, with some effort the RAM and HD’s in the apple Mac Mini with M1 you can (with nerves of steel) desolder both and replace them without issues.
I wonder how long before Apple blocks this?
More infrastructure hacking
An article on Arstechnica cover the case and prosecution of an ex-employee on: “In late March 2019, Wednesday’s indictment said, Post Rock experienced a remote intrusion to its computer system that resulted in the shutdown of the facility’s processes for ensuring water is safe to drink.”
Was discovered accidentally, could have contaminated the water supply to 1,500 retail customers and 10 wholesale customers in eight Kansas counties
Can IOT learn from History?
As the world keeps on getting excited with IOT and the security (or lack thereof) is getting a lot of attention. Karl Marx famously stated that “History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce” so a look at the same issues in current infrastructures such as remote terminal units (RTU) Programmable logic controller (PLC) and the latest discovery with the Ovarro RTU proves that the history like Stuxnet is an relevant exaple of the problems IOT will face.