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Submission + - A hacked WiFi Router, an API and a toy bus: it's the ambient bus arrival monitor (jgc.org)

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JohnGrahamCumming

on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @07:13AM

JohnGrahamCumming writes: "In this simple project a hacked Linksys WRT54GL talks to a public API to get real-time bus information and displays the times of the next buses on a model bus. Never miss the bus again!"

Submission + - Cryptographically hiding TCP ports (sf.net)

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JohnGrahamCumming

on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @10:02AM

JohnGrahamCumming writes: "The shimmer project implements a cryptographically-based system for hiding important (e.g. SSH) open ports in plain sight. By automatically forwarding from a range of ports all but one of which are honeypots and by changing the ports every minute only a user knowing a shared secret can determine the location of the real SSH server."

Submission + - The first subliminal spam using animated GIFs

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JohnGrahamCumming

on Monday September 04, 2006 @11:13AM

JohnGrahamCumming writes: "Everyone's noticed the recent flood of image spam (including the SpamAssassin developers who are working on an OCR-extension to beat it), but take a look at this spam containing a subliminal message flashed every 17seconds to try to entice you to buy the stock being pumped. Does this work? Warning: link shows the actual spam; don't blame me if you lose money on this stock!"

Submission + - AT&T crack was done by phishers

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JohnGrahamCumming

on Friday September 01, 2006 @01:22PM

JohnGrahamCumming writes: "According to a story in the San Francisco Chronicle the AT&T store crack was the prelude to a very sophisticated phishing operation. The phishers were aiming to use the information from the store to fool existing customers into divulging SSNs and other personal information."

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