The stereotypes that lump IT professionals together are misguided. It's actually the conditions that surround the IT pros that are stereotypical, and the geeks are just reacting to those conditions the way they always react -- logically. Source: Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks | Computerworld
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Below is a proof of concept which can be used to track a user on a GSM tower without the user even knowing. Interesting to think what can be done with this.. Source: How to use old GSM protocols/encodings to know if a user is Online on the GSM Network AKA PingSMS 2.0 - Simone Margaritelli
The average attack sizes for DNS, NTP, SSDP and Chargen reflection amplification attacks all increased in Q2 2015. According to Arbor Networks, which found that the largest attack monitored in Q2 was a 196Gbps UDP flood, which it characterized as a large, but no longer uncommon, attack size. Source: Global DDoS Attacks Grow in Size and Speed What a…