Olly42

Olly42, 13 days ago to Batteries

Lithium-Free Sodium Batteries exit the Lab. 🔋

Natron Energy, a pioneer in sodium-ion battery technology, has officially commenced mass production of its lithium-free sodium batteries in its Holland, Michigan facility. Offering an alternative energy storage solution with benefits such as faster cycling, longer lifespan, and safer usage compared to lithium-ion batteries.

https://newatlas.com/energy/natron-sodium-ion-battery-production-startt/

#sodium #batteries #energy #science #tech #news

Olly42, 19 days ago to Discord

Message-Scraping, User-Tracking Service Spy Pet shut down by Discord.

Spy Pet, a service that sold access to a rich database of allegedly 3 billion messages and details on 600 million users, has seemingly been shut down. Discord said that the company's safety team had been "diligently investigating" Spy Pet and that it had banned accounts affiliated with it.

https://www.404media.co/discord-shuts-down-spy-pet-bots-that-scraped-sold-user-messages/

#discord #socialmedia #privacy #it #tech #news

Olly42, 1 month ago to SEC

Critical Flaws Leave 92,000 D-Link NAS Devices Vulnerable to Malware Attacks.

​Over 92,000 end-of-life D-Link Network Attached Storage Devices exposed online and unpatched against a critical remote code execution (RCE) zero-day flaw.

D-Link NAS devices including models DNS-340L, DNS-320L, DNS-327L and DNS-325.

CVE-2024-3272 (CVSS score: 9.8)
CVE-2024-3273 (CVSS score: 7.3)

https://supportannouncement.us.dlink.com/security/publication.aspx?name=SAP10383

#dlink #nas #sec #tech #engineer #news

The command injection flaw arises from adding a base64-encoded command to the "system" parameter via an HTTP GET request, which is then executed. (Example of the malicious request)
[Netsecfish’s network scans show over 92,000 vulnerable D-Link NAS devices exposed online and susceptible to attacks through these flaws. (Netsecfish|GitHub) https://github.com/netsecfish/dlink?tab=readme-ov-file](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/112/246/741/459/654/058/original/0c8cb578783e16d7.png)

Olly42, 1 month ago to linux

DinodasRAT Malware targets Linux Servers in Espionage Campaign.

Ubuntu systems being attacked by a Linux version of the DinodasRAT (also known as XDealer) that may have been operating since 2022. DinodasRAT creates a hidden file in the directory where its binary resides, which acts as a mutex to prevent multiple instances from running on the infected device.

https://securelist.com/dinodasrat-linux-implant/112284/

#linux #os #it #security #tech #engineer #programming #malware #dinodasrat #news

the malware's execution logic
creating the unique ID

Olly42, 1 month ago to apple

iPhone Users under ‘Reset Password’ Attack.

Beware support calls offering a fix.

Cybersecurity researchers have figured out a way to exploit what seems to be a bug in Apple’s password reset feature in a new scam that can lock you out of your iPhone if you’re not careful.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/recent-mfa-bombing-attacks-targeting-apple-users/

#apple #iphone #security #technology #ios #programming #it #news #bug #pass #mfa

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Olly42, 2 months ago to DOOM

Doom on a electric toothbrush.

Running the game Doom on the tiny color display of an commercial electric toothbrush.

The Toothbrush contains an ESP32-C3 microcontroller (4MB Flash). With the codebase from Spritetm and miniwad data file, you are able to get the complete size of DOOM and WAD file down to the 4MB of the ESP32.

https://github.com/Spritetm/esp32c3-doom-bauble

#doom #retro #gaming #hack #esp32 #retrogaming #news #hashtaggames

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Olly42, 3 months ago to linux

The Usage Of Embedded Linux In Spacecraft.

The Linux operating system being used in spacecraft. These range from SpaceX’s Dragon capsule to everyone’s favorite Martian helicopter. SpaceX uses Linux kernel 3.2 (with real-time patches) on the primary flight computers of both Dragon and its rockets (Falcon 9 and Starship).

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/02/13/how-embedded-linux-is-used-in-spacecraft-linux-embedded-space-embeddedrelated/

#linux #space #spacex #science #dragon