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In our last search engines post called Internet of Things Searching we discussed services that scan the Internet every day giving users easy ways to drill down into those results. Users can get detailed searches for routers, webcams, RDP service, Nginx web servers, SCADA controllers or whatever, as well as access robust APIs so these […]
Yesterday’s Hacker Public Radio podcast was an introduction to Bitcoin that I recorded recently. The audio is terrible, but hopefully the content is less than terrible. I’m not sure if there’s much of an audience on HPR for Bitcoin and blockchain related content – we’ll see. Here is what I tried to cover: What is […]
According to the introduction page on the scapy documentation website: Scapy is a Python program that enables the user to send, sniff and dissect and forge network packets. This capability allows construction of tools that can probe, scan or attack networks. What that doesn’t tell you is that scapy can be used interactively or imported […]
The proliferation of cameras in the modern world is no fad, it continues unabated. Here is an image (shown below) from a 2016 patent application from Sony Corporation for a digital camera built into a contact lens. Notice that it has wireless communications capability and a storage unit to offload images and upgrade the software […]
We talked about Google Search in the previous post on the topic of search engines, but now we’re going to shift gears and take a look at some search engines specialized for searching the Internet of Things (IoT). The 800 pound gorilla in the space is Shodan, that lets users search the Internet for devices […]
Photographs have clues that are specific to a camera. Tiny clues, but given a group of photos form the same camera it quickly becomes obvious that they did come from the same source. Once that happens, every photo you ever take is identified as coming from your camera, on your phone, and associated to you. […]
Google has long dominated the field of search engines in terms of market share, sporting a 77% market share in a recent survey, but many have expressed concerns about the search giant. The immensity and complexity of this search behemoth is nothing short of amazing. According to internetlivestats.com, “Google now processes over 40,000 search queries […]
Camera technology is not what it was a generation ago. Photogaphs and videos captured using smartphones have revolutionized how we see the world, how we share information and how we document our lives. But few understand the technologies involved and how they are analyzed. In these next few posts I want to share what I […]
Here we go again, yet another blog by yours truly. I had a blog for years here, and have dabbled in some other places since then. I enjoy writing, and here I intend to share whatever I’m interested in. That should amount to a heavy dose of cybersecurity, along with blockchain, digital privacy and computer […]