Car hacking – myth, fantasy or reality?
May05

Car hacking – myth, fantasy or reality?

Car hacking – myth, fantasy or reality? I was recently asked by an investigative reporter if there were any cars that were safe from hacking and apart from suggesting an old Volvo 142 I wasn’t able to give him a simple answer because I haven’t really researched this area properly. We’ve all seen reports in media how some cars are/were vulnerable to mostly physical attacks, but in a few rare cases there were a...

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Vault 7, Year Zero – stolen CIA hacker tools and current affairs. Part 1.
Mar11

Vault 7, Year Zero – stolen CIA hacker tools and current affairs. Part 1.

Vault 7, Year Zero Unless you live under a rock, none could’ve missed the headlines in the news stating the fact that a bunch of documents and hacking tools, stolen from CIA, had been handed over to Wikileaks who now released the first part in a partly censored form. It was censored to hide the identities of the CIA staff but also censored in order to not spread the actual tools of the trade that allowed the likes of CIA, GCHQ...

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Android – hidden and internal API’s revisited
Apr22

Android – hidden and internal API’s revisited

A few years ago I wrote a short article on how you can access, and use, Android internal API’s in Eclipse. This is still a popular article which still generate hits every day. Android – hidden and internal API’s Sadly it is perhaps a bit dated – especially since Eclipse is no more and Android Studio is the new toolbox, so I decided to see if I could do the same with Android Studio and Android 5.1 aka...

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Android – hidden and internal API’s
Mar15

Android – hidden and internal API’s

Before I start this blog entry you might see that I’m now writing in English. (Yes, Queens English that is ;)) This is not to be a pretentious dick, it’s because I’ve receieved quite a few questions regarding Android and Google translate Swedish->English is somewhat “less than perfect”… Also English is my main writing language anyway and I spent nearly 10 years of my life there so there you go! 😛...

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