Cyber Security @ VT

The Cyber Security Club at Virginia Tech is a student organization in Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Virginia Tech.

[Ben Krasnow @BenKrasnow]

New hummingbird feeder presented a great opportunity to get some @ChronosCameras footage. Don't miss the "jet assisted take off" in the second clip.

[Dylan Curran @iamdylancurran]

Want to freak yourself out? I'm gonna show just how much of your information the likes of Facebook and Google store about you without you even realising it

[Aurélien Francillon @aurelsec]

The prize of the "most enlightening Wikipedia GIF so far" is given to the Dipole Antenna:
https://t.co/nkVFcwhk4k

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

Good morning Twitter. This post about Ledger cryptocurrency hardware wallet vulnerabilities is extremely cool, and not just for cryptocurrency people. Let me talk a bit about it. 1/ https://t.co/J5ztVpWJvo

[Paul Fenwick, @[email protected] @pjf]

The app used to harvest facebook data for Cambridge Analytica also harvested it from the *friends* of users that authorised it.

I was talking about how dangerous this was back in 2010. It's super common, almost nobody turns off the controls which allow it.

[Matthew Green @matthew_d_green]

Since almost nobody uses cryptocurrency for payments yet, they get speculated on. In that setting, the existence of a large and technically-uninformed commmunity becomes the main determinant of value.

[JP Aumasson @veorq]

https://t.co/IMsf2NmaWh

[sarah jeong @sarahjeong]

Almost everything that is supposedly going to get solved with blockchain can be solved with some kind of version control hosted on a central server.

[sarah jeong @sarahjeong]

* except for the drugs, the scams, the tax evasion, and payment-blockade-circumvention. I acknowledge that those are valid use case scenarios for bitcoin

[@[email protected] @sitnikcode]

The best pull request in 2017

[Srigi @srigi]

"Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know"

It is hard for humans to get the picture until you translate it to "human numbers":

[Conor Patrick @_conorpp]

Got this working finally. With some more tuning, it should hold in any orientation. I'm thinking about making a clock with levitating arms

[Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar]

.@joemullin and I spent months on this wild story about the man who claims he invented email. It’s out today. https://t.co/kFmB1Gr2wG

[thaddeus e. grugq @thegrugq]

Air Force linguist is not competent at high tech spying.
Anonymous tip pages better update significantly -- this is what you're dealing with https://t.co/0ou0Dv87Uo

[Dave Jones @eevblog]

WTF
Seriously, WTAF. 5 bloody nanometers.

IBM unveils world’s first 5nm chip https://t.co/kF77V85AW2

[Greg Koenig @gak_pdx]

Proper machine tool engineering in action:

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

Encrypted traffic has a fingerprint—enough to distinguish among 200 Netflix vids with 99.5% accuracy in < 2.5 mins. https://t.co/mvsvA20lzx

[Core77 @core77]

Demonstration of an oscillating square hole drill bit

[Florian Roth ⚡️ @cyb3rops]

Designing a credit card emulator card | by @_conorpp https://t.co/GWmf6senjm

[briankrebs @briankrebs]

Exclusive, breaking: Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author? https://t.co/PxRxULQOus