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Hacking Traffic Lights is Amazingly Really Easy

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Hacking Internet of Things (IoTs) have become an amazing practice for cyber criminals out there, but messing with <b>Traffic lights</b> would be something more crazy for them.<br />
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The hacking scenes in hollywood movies has just been a source of entertainment for the technology industry, like we've seen traffic lights hacked in Die Hard and The Italian Job, but these movies always inspire hackers to perform similar hacking attacks in day-to-day life.<br />
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Security researchers at the University of Michigan have not only hacked traffic light signals in real life, but also claimed that it’s actually shockingly easy to perform by anyone with a laptop and the right kind of radio. If we compare the traffic light hacks in movies and real life, the reality is much easier.<br />
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In a <a href="https://jhalderm.com/pub/papers/traffic-woot14.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>paper</b> </a>study published this month, the security researchers describe how a series of major security vulnerabilities in traffic light systems allowed them to very easily and very quickly seized control of the whole system of at least 100 traffic signals in an unnamed Michigan city from a single point of access.<br />
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Researchers took permission from a local road agency before performing the hack, but they did not disclose exactly where in Michigan they did their research.<br />
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‟Our attacks show that an adversary can control traffic infrastructure to cause disruption, degrade safety, or gain an unfair advantage,” the paper explained.</blockquote>
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SECURITY HOLES IN TRAFFIC LIGHT SYSTEMS</h3>
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The team, led by University of Michigan computer scientist<a href="https://jhalderm.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b> J. Alex Halderman</b></a>, said that the networked traffic systems are left vulnerable to three major weaknesses:</div>
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<li>Unencrypted radio signals,</li>
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<li>A debugging port that is easy to attack</li>
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This left the network accessible to everyone from cyber criminals to young hackers.</div>
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“The vulnerabilities we discover in the infrastructure are not a fault of any one device or design choice, but rather show a systemic lack of security consciousness,” the researchers report in a paper.</blockquote>
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In an effort to save on installation costs and increase flexibility, the traffic light system makes use of wireless radio signals rather than dedicated physical networking links for its communication infrastructure - this hole was exploited by the researchers. Surprisingly, more than 40 states currently use such systems to keep traffic flowing as efficiently as possible.</div>
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“The safety critical nature of traffic infrastructure requires that it be secure against computer-based attacks, but this is not always the case,” the team said. “We investigate a networked traffic signal system currently deployed in the United States and discover a number of security flaws that exist due to systemic failures by the designers. We leveraged these flaws to create attacks which gain control of the system, and we successfully demonstrate them on the deployment.”</blockquote>
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WIRELESS SECURITY IN QUESTIONS</h3>
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The Traffic light systems use a combination of 5.8GHz and 900MHz radio signals, depending on the conditions at each intersection, for wireless communication in point-to-point or point-to-multipoint configurations. The 900MHz links use "a proprietary protocol with frequency hopping spread-spectrum (FHSS)," but the 5.8GHz version of the proprietary protocol isn't terribly different from 802.11n.</div>
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The researchers says that anyone with a laptop and a wireless card operating on the same frequency as the wirelessly networked traffic light — in this case, 5.8 gigahertz — could access the entire unencrypted network.</div>
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DEBUG PORT</h3>
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Now, after gaining access, next was to communicate with one of the controllers in their target network. This was done very easily due to the fact that this system’s the control boxes run VxWorks 5.5, a version which by default gets built from source with a debug port left accessible for testing.</div>
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“By sniffing packets sent between the controller and this program, we discovered that communication to the controller is not encrypted, requires no authentication, and is replayable. Using this information, we were then able to reverse engineer parts of the communication structure,” the paper reads.</blockquote>
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“Various command packets only differ in the last byte, allowing an attacker to easily determine remaining commands once one has been discovered. We created a program that allows a user to activate any button on the controller and then displays the results to the user. We also created a library of commands which enable scriptable attacks. We tested this code in the field and were able to access the controller remotely.”</blockquote>
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This debug port allowed researchers to successfully turned all lights red or alter the timing of neighboring intersections — for example, to make sure someone hit all green lights on a given route.</div>
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More worrying part is the ability of a cyber criminal to perform denial-of-service (DoS) attack on controlled intersections by triggering each intersection’s malfunction management unit by attempting invalid configurations, which would put the lights into a failure mode.</div>
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At last, the team called for manufacturers and operators to improve the security of traffic infrastructure. It recommended that the traffic-system administrators should not use default usernames and passwords, as well as they should stop broadcasting communications unencrypted for “casual observers and curious teenagers” to see.<br />
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"While traffic control systems may be built to fail into a safe state, we have shown that they are not safe from attacks by a determined adversary," the paper concluded.</blockquote>
Moreover, they also warned that devices like voting machines and even connected cars could suffer similar attacks.<br />
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Hacking Traffic Lights is Amazingly Really Easy

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26 Aug 2014

Secure yout account from a new facebook virus !!

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<b>A new Facebook virus has infected more than 50K users.....are you one of them ??</b><br />
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Facebook viruses have been around for a while, but lately I’ve seen them cropping up even more frequently. You get a Facebook virus when you click on a link that installs malicious code or if you allow an untrusted application access to your account.<br />
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What to do if you too are infected from this virus ?<br />
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The first thing you have to do when you discover you have a Facebook virus is change your Facebook password.<br />
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Finally, check to be sure the application isn’t lurking on your account. It’s probably not, but it’s good to be sure and now is a good time to clean out the apps you’re not using any more anyway. To check the apps connected to your account, follow these instructions:<br />
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1) Go to Account > Privacy Settings.<br />
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2) Click the Edit your Settings link under Apps and Websites.<br />
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3)Click the top Edit Settings button (by Apps You Use).<br />
The Apps You Use page comes up listing all the apps you’ve allowed to have access to your account.(Mostly the app is named Xperia or HTC)<br />
Go through the list and be sure you know each and every one of the apps.<br />
If you’re unsure if the app is trusted or if you want to remove an app.<br />
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 4) Click the Edit Settings button next to the app.<br />
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5) Click the Remove the app.<br />
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6) Thats it and you are safe now. :)<br />
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28 Jul 2014

Create Bootable USB Without Any Software in windows 7

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Here is a tutorial to create Bootable USB Drive in window's  without any software...<br />
By this you can install window's 7 without CD....<br />
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Am also share this tut in URDU.. So Lets start................................<br />
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1. 4Gb USB Drive<br />
2. Window's  CD<br />
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Step 1) Insert win7 CD and copy all data form it to an folder in your Hard Drive..<br />
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Step 2) Eject CD and put USB Drive<br />
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Step 3) Then open Start and search for   DISKPART ... A black window will be open<br />
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 Step 4) Then type "List Disk"  and hit Enter button.. and check your USB Drive </div>
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Step 5) Then Type "Select Disk #"  in place of hash, type your USB drive no#</div>
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Step 6) Then type After DISKPART>  Clean</div>
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Step 7) Then type " Create Partition Primary"  and Hit Enter...</div>
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Step 8) Then type " Format fs=fat32 quick"   and hit Enter button, your usb starts formatting...</div>
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Step 9) Then type after DISKPART>  assign    and hit Enter... A autorun page will be open.. close it..</div>
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Step 10) Type  Exit..  and copy all that files which was copy from Win7 CD  in Step1 in your USB drive ...</div>
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11 Jun 2014

Shutdown Your Window's 7 in just 2 seconds

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Today i am telling about you to shutdown your windows 7 in just 2 seconds. This is amazing and to easy trick and many friends don't know about this trick....<br />
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Step 1) Press Alt+Ctrl+Del  button..  The below screen will be show ...<br />
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Step 2) Hold Ctrl button & Click on Shutdown option ...  Then Your Window will be Shutdown in just 2 seconds</div>
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Enjoy!</div>
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Shutdown Your Window's 7 in just 2 seconds

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11 Jun 2014

Avoid Your Computer From Hanging Problem

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So Many Peoples are worried due to Computer hanging . Today i am going to share an amazing Trick which help to solve this problem. So lets start!!!!!!<br />
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Step 1) Open Run & type "msconfig"  and hit Enter button...<br />
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Step 2) The blow window will be shown. Then click on services tab..<br />
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Step 3) Uncheck the "Background Intligent Transfer" & click on  OK & Restart your PC.<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
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Avoid Your Computer From Hanging Problem

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11 Jun 2014

Create Un Deleteable or Un Rename able Folder

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Here is a Trick for creating un deleteable or un Renameable folder..<br />
Step 1) Open Run and Type CMD and hit Enter button..<br />
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Step 2) Type these commands in command prompt..<br />
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Step 3) Type command  "md con"  and press Enter..<br />
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Now close command prompt and open that drive in which you have created this CON folder... This folder could not be deleted or Renamed !!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />
Enjoy !<br />
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Create Un Deleteable or Un Rename able Folder

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