HackingTheUniverse

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The Metasploit Framework is a framework that enables penetration testing by combining modular packages of exploit code, payloads and tools such as Meterpreter that allow the tester to maintain access, collect information on the target system and execute pivot attacks against other systems. This script helps the tester by maintaining backdoor access.
Meterpreter Persistence - [...]

This matrix is a map that correlates attackers methodology with NIST 800-53 security controls: ATTACK METHODOLOGY/CONTROL

Recon

General/Google

RA-3 RISK ASSESSMENT - you can only reduce exposure and can never “stop” general reconnaissance, but you damn well better know what you’re defending before the attacker starts to find out

Network scanning

CM-7 LEAST FUNCTIONALITY - show the attacker the [...]

Heron was born around 0010 and was a Greek mathematician, engineer and inventor who lived in Alexandria, Egypt when it was a province of the Roman Empire. He designed the first known simple steam engine (the aeolipile or Hero’s engine), the first vending machine, a wind powered organ, a water displacement pump (fire engine [...]

Thin film and nanocrystal solar cells are pushing the edge of photovoltaics, but are often constructed using a silicon base doped with various forms of cadmium, tellurium, indium and other elements that push costs up. A substance that is abundant, cheap and has the right optical properties could produce an inexpensive solar cell. [...]

“I think, therefore I am” (cogito ergo sum) - Rene Descartes
Consciousness or awareness of self existence, seems to be a combination of a sense of limitation of self, of distinguishing between self and “other than self”, of past history relevant to self and perhaps most importantly of current reasoning and analytical processes being used to [...]

Mote Net Computing (MNC) was developed out of swarm technology. As self organizing swarm-nets of motes became more available, they started being used for background computational purposes. Each mote generally has a low level of computational power, but because there are so many of them, as the net becomes large, the power also scales [...]

Ceres is the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt and was the first asteroid ever discovered, in 1802. Recent data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the outer mantle of Ceres is frozen liquid containing ammonia and water. There is evidence that Ceres may be as much as 20% water. [...]

Insurgents have learned how to intercept video relays from drones in Iraq and Afghanistan and the vulnerability has existed for some time. Hacking warfare robots will become more of an issue as they become more commonplace. Think about how network hacking techniques can be applied to war scenarios and vice-versa: botnets - [...]

Governments are organized for the purpose of common defense and the well being of the group. In a nomadic tribe, there is little to defend in the way of territory, structures or possessions, so the form of government is usually minimal and often casual. The tribe can simply pick up and move on [...]

By coating paper with an ink that contains both carbon nanotubes and silver nanowire, the paper can store an electric charge, allowing it to function as a light and flexible battery or supercapacitor.
At Stanford, nanotubes + ink + paper = instant battery - [stanford.edu]

Stanford scientists are harnessing nanotechnology to quickly produce ultra-lightweight, bendable batteries and [...]