A few years ago window.getComputedStyle and the like where adjusted to return the default color of links, instead of the actual color on screen. Security and privacy were the driving factors behind that decision: by styling :visited links with a different color than their non-visited counterparts, a hacker could easily determine which sites a user […]
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Ticket Trick: Hacking companies through their helpdesk
Clever way, unearthed by Inti de Ceukelaire, to getting access to private communications channels (such as Slack) by leveraging the create-by-email feature of issue trackers/the helpdesk of a company. First target of Init was Gitlab’s Slack channel: Anyone with a valid @gitlab.com e-mail address can join their Slack team. At the same time, GitLab offers […]
DolphinAttack: Hacking Voice Assistants with Inaudible Voice Commands
About a year ago it came to my attention that voice assistants such as Siri can lead to easily exploitable security issues. As voice assistants are not aware who is talking to them, it doesn’t matter if it’s you or your neighbour shouting “Unlock the door” at ‘m … Now a team from Zhejiang University […]
Two Point Perspective Drawing Hack
As a kid I used to make loads of these kind of images. Pencil in one hand, ruler in the other. Turns out I could’ve ditched the ruler: (via)
The flex-grow: 9999; hack
Imagine a flex container (display: flex) with two flex items in a row (flex-direction: row). Item A on the left, and item B on the right. I would like the flex items to be stacked on top of each other when necessary. Item B has to jump onto the second line, if there’s not enough […]
Super Mario World Flappy Bird
Remember that Super Mario World “Credits Warp”? The guy’s back, and this time he has injected the source code of Flappy Bird into Super Mario World by just playing the game: Using various Super Mario World glitches, I injected the code for Flappy Bird (again via Freek)
Super Mario World “Credits Warp”
Fascinating trick in which one actually reprograms Super Mario World by just playing it to make it start playing the end credits upon triggering a crash: The goal of this run is to trick the game into playing the credits in the first level. It works by using a glitch to allow yoshi to eat […]
WiFi Taser
Built with an A-version BeagleBone Black, this WiFi Taser by Max Henstell turned a Pringles can into an antenna gun of sorts, using Python to send deauth packets to knock nearby laptops off wi-fi. How to kick everyone around you off wifi with Python →
SkyJack: autonomous drone hacking
SkyJack is a drone engineered to autonomously seek out, hack, and wirelessly take over other drones within wifi distance, creating an army of zombie drones under your control. By Samy (yes, the Samy – author of the MySpace Samy Worm and Evercookie) Flying hacker contraption hunts other drones, turns them into zombies →
The Image Toaster
The Image toaster will search the internet for images related to the days date and will toast a it on your bread The Image Toaster →