Tesla Vehicles Can Be Hacked To Unlock The Car Remotely

Tesla Vehicles Can Be Hacked To Unlock The Car RemotelyWhile connected cars with more digital components is inevitable, what this means is that it could open up more cars to hackers who could find a way to take control of your car or access it remotely. Apparently Tesla’s electric vehicles exhibit such vulnerabilities, according to Nitesh Dhanjani, a corporate security consultant and an owner of a Tesla vehicle himself.

He revealed the flaw during a conference in Singapore after claiming to have conducted a study himself. According to his findings, hackers could remotely unlock the car via a command transmitted over the internet. This is done by hacking the password that Tesla owners use to setup their account which can also be used to unlock the car. (more…)

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    Watch The Myo Armband Make One 2048 Addict Feel Like He’s “A Part” Of The Game

    In a new demo video of how Thalmic Labs’ Myo gesture control armband might be used to control devices in the future, we see a player of the addictive puzzler 2048 interacting with the game with hand and finger movements, as picked up by the interface accessory. Myo developer kits are in the wild currently, and all kinds of software just like this is bubbling up as a result. This new Myo… Read More

    DMV credit card hack hits thousands in California

    The California Department of Motor Vehicles is the next in line to fall prey to an extensive credit card security breach. A private alert sent out by MasterCard to different … Continue reading

    Facebook’s Hack Programming Language Aims To Deliver Faster Coding Process

    Facebook’s Hack Programming Language Aims To Deliver Faster Coding ProcessFacebook is not a company that rests on its laurels. No sir, they have done their bit to experiment and improve on current products, and in their latest effort to help developers write and test code faster than ever before, Facebook has announced Hack. Hack might be new to the masses, but it had already been used at Facebook for a year already, and we are glad to bring you word that Facebook has released it as open source today.

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    NATO sites hacked by Ukrainians over Crimea row

    One of the most popular forms of online protest against authoritative action is to bring down the official website and make life chaotic, and NATO is the latest to fall … Continue reading

    NSA Dressed Up As Facebook To Infect PCs With Malware

    NSA Dressed Up As Facebook To Infect PCs With MalwareThe National Security Agency, or NSA for short, has not been in the good books of many a person simply because of what they have done in the past, as well as alluded to have done. This latest bit of information is not going to earn them any kind of endearments, either, as it has been reported that the NSA posed as Facebook at times using automated systems in order to infect user computers with malware for the past four years.

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    Sally Beauty may have suffered credit card breach

    The security of credit card systems at major retailers has been on the forefront of the minds of many shoppers since the major Target credit card breach that happened a … Continue reading

    Bitcoin hacks take over $650k as two exchanges admit break-ins

    Bitcoin hackers have claimed two more victims, with exchange Flexcoin announcing its virtual vault has been drained and that it will be ceasing operations immediately, while Poloneix confessed a security … Continue reading

    Over 300,000 Routers Compromised In Recent Hack

    Over 300,000 Routers Compromised In Recent HackIf you’re running a small business or if you’re simply a home user, you might want to think about changing your router to something with a little more security. This is because researchers have discovered that a host of routers typically favored by small businesses and home users have been compromised, about 300,000 devices to be exact. The devices in question are made by D-Link, Micronet, Tenda, TP-Link, and more.

    According to the researchers, Team Cymru, it seems that these hackers have managed to commandeer these routers and actually made changes to the DNS servers. Some of the hacks that they think could have been used include cross-site request forgery, as well as remotely changing WPA/WPA2 passwords. (more…)

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    Netflix Sleep Hack Resumes Where You Last Dozed Off

    In the recent Netflix Hack Day that was organized, several interesting ideas were thrown about, and one of them would be the idea of “sleep bookmarks”. Before you start to have funny ideas about what sleep bookmarks are all about, here is the simple explanation – you will no longer need to find yourself falling asleep while watching a particular episode of your favorite TV series only to wake up and realize you have missed the last 3 episodes. The sleep hack for Netflix will rely on FitBit technology in order to figure out just when you have fallen asleep. Upon doing so successfully, audio on your Netflix-enabled device would begin to fade out, while whatever you are watching at that point in time would stop playing, as evident by the YouTube video above.

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