The Ultimate Galaksija Talk
Everything about a Yugoslavian microcomputer halfway between a TRS-80 and a ZX 80. Galaksija was to be in Yugoslavia what Commodore and Sinclair were in the west. Whether it succeeded […]
Milking the Digital Cash Cow
Extracting Secret Keys of Contactless Smartcards Contactless smartcards have become widespread for applications such as ticketing, access control, identification and payments. Side-channel analysis (SCA) is a powerful type of passive […]
Not My Department
On the topic of resistance. Persons: Jacob Appelbaum
Our Daily Job Hacking the Law
The key elements of policy hacking Legal systems have a huge impact on what we do as hackers, but also on internet users in general. Laws can restrict our freedom […]
Page Fault Liberation Army
A History of Creative x86 Virtual Memory Uses The x86 processors contain a surprising amount of built-in memory translation logic, which is driven by various data tables with intricate entry […]
Privacy and the Car of the Future
Considerations for the Connected Vehicle To date, remote vehicle communications have provided little in the way of privacy. Much information and misinformation has been spread on what the system is […]
GSM: Cell Phone Network Review
262 42 – The full spectrum Did you notice 262 42 in your mobile phone network search list at the last CCC events? Did you and your friends buy SIM […]
Rambling Walk Through an EMV Transaction
With Visa and Mastercard pushing for EMV (http://www.emvco.com, aka “chip and pin”) rollout in the United States, the uptake of contactless payment and the use of mobile NFC wallets, the […]
Certificate Authority Collapse
Will the EU Succeed in Regulating HTTPS? Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) has evolved into the de facto standard for secure web browsing. But in the security community, it has […]
Russia’s Surveillance State
Privacy International, Agentura.Ru, the Russian secret services watchdog, and Citizen Lab have joined forces to launch a new project entitled ‘Russia’s Surveillance State’. The aims of the project are to […]
