This was brought to my attention in our IRC channel and it’s scary as hell. We’re not talking about boats, but rather packages. This article has all the details, but basically it comes down to someone sending in a wifi and wan enabled device to hack into corporate networks (think iphone). WarDriving Is So 2000 — Here Comes WarShipping
An estimated $27 million worth of art, including works by Jackson Pollock, Vincent Van Gogh and Rembrandt, were stolen from a Pebble Beach home on Friday. The artwork was taken from the home that the owners of the collection, A. Benjamin Amadio and Dr. Ralph Kennaugh, were renting while they looked at property in the area. Amadio said the pieces of art hadn’t been hung since they were just renting the home. He also said that several other pieces of art that were part of the collection weren’t stolen. Amadio and Kennaugh are offering two separate rewards — a $1 million reward for the return of the stolen artwork, and a $5 million reward for the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the heist. The...
Universal credit card in the palm of your hand via Hackaday Do you remember the magnetic card spoofer in Terminator 2? It was a bit farfetched because apparently the device could be swiped through a reader and magically come up with working account numbers and pin numbers. We’re getting close to that kind of magic with [Jaroslaw's] card spoofer that is button-programmable. Building off of a project that allows spoofing via an iPod and electromagnet, [Jaroslaw] wanted something that doesn’t require a computer to put together the card code. He accomplished this by interfacing a 16-button keyboard and a character LCD with an AVR ATmega168 microcontroller. Card codes can be entered with the buttons and verified on...
Steal the administrator password from an EEPROM via Hackaday Did you forget your hardware-based password and now you’re locked out? If it’s an IBM ThinkPad you may be in luck but it involves a bit more than just removing the backup battery. SoDoItYourself has an article detailing the retrieval of password data from an EEPROM. The process is a fun one. Disassemble your laptop. Build a serial interface and solder it to the EEPROM chip where the password is stored. Connect this interface to a second computer and use it to dump the data into a file. Download a special program to decipher the dump file and dig through the hex code looking for something that resembles the password. Reassemble your laptop and hope that...
Today in Sweden we saw an amazing movie-like heist. Early this morning a white helicopter landed on the roof of a money depot, three men walked out and into the building, the helicopter lifted again and hovered above the building, explosions went off, the robbers came back out with several large bags after the helicopter landed again and they took off. They have not yet been found but the helicopter has been found by a small lake. Many witnesses who live nearby saw the whole thing and gave detailed descriptions of the modus operandi. http://www.thelocal.se/22234/20090923/ Update: Seems CNN has got the story too: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/09/23/stockholm.helicopter.heist/index.html
via hackaday We’ve covered this sort of thing before, but there is something to be said for the simplicity of this tiny GSM alarm system by [trax]. The alarm system is designed to send the owner a text message when a sensor is triggered. This alarm only works with Siemens phones, but it shouldn’t be too hard to find one. The alarm is configured via a dip switch on the board and can also be armed and disarmed by text. The brains of this system is a PIC16F84A. The code and schematics are included at the bottom of the page.
Rich Harley from Suspicion Industries sent in some pictures of a vehicle that they just completed. This is what I call a office away from home! I know where to go if I ever start a career as a super secret spy! Instead of a limo could I rent this van for an evening? “Here is a rather large home project we have completed – a surveillance vehicle or mobile office. The project took around 9 months to finish and we have pictures and build information to document progress. The van has: * onboard power system/batteries (10 hour runtime), plug sockets etc * lighting * onboard computers x 2 + TFT wall mounted monitors * wireless router * desk + chair setup * furnished walls and floor * climate control We’ve...
