Tag: Ars Technica
Canon warns printer users to manually wipe Wi-Fi settings before discarding...
Check out the article here.
New Windows exploit lets you instantly become admin. Have you patched?...
Zerologon lets anyone with a network toehold obtain domain-controller password.
US Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control...
Five years ago, a CBS 60 Minutes report publicized a bit of technology trivia many in the defense community were aware of: the fact that eight-inch floppy disks were still used to store data critical to operating the Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile command, control, and communications network. The system, once called the Strategic Air Command Digital Network (SACDIN), relied on IBM Series/1 computers installed by the Air Force at Minuteman II missile sites in the 1960s and 1970s.
Those floppy disks have now been retired.
Inmates built computers hidden in ceiling, connected them to prison network...
An amazing story out of Ohio showing how inmates were able to build computers and connect to the prison network.