At the university, we did go through physical hardware attacks, like USB keyloggers or getting data from frozen memory sticks and cryptographic keys from smartcards. But as I am finishing my master’s in cybersecurity management, I realized that something has been missing – the actual means of “getting physical.”
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Triggering microwave REX
This video was recorded for the sole purpose of having some reference in my bachelor thesis that such an attack can be done. It is one of many strikingly apparent physical attacks for which I could not find any example online. On the other hand, more popular PIR REXes have tons of videos.
Continue reading “Triggering microwave REX”Love and Phishing
I made my first (not indicating that there were any others!) crime in 2009 when I was 14 years old. Well, the criminality of phishing was controversial at the time but it’s 2020 now and we are well beyond it’s possible limitation period so I can talk about it freely:
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After many years of “hobbying” in the security field, I learned that people tend to ignore the possibilities a potential adversary may have. I have had much fun but never wrote about it. And that is a shame. Some of my stories are almost ten years old, and I will certainly come back to them, but now I need to self-reference myself for my bachelor thesis on more relevant issues, so let’s start with that!
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