As spoken of early on in the initial announcements of NVIDIA’s gaming handheld SHIELD, the company has made good on their promise to allow full software modification and hacking with the release of open source downloads this week. What this actually means is that NVIDIA is making it rather easy for the development community as […]
While we’re far from a fully smart toilet populated public here in 2013, signs of an unprecedented hacker attack have surfaced this week. The Japan-based My Satis toilet has received its very own security warning by the folks at Trustwave SpiderLabs due to its vulnerability in hard-coded Bluetooth PIN usability. Once you’ve got that code, […]
The development team behind the Crysis game family Crytek have suffered what appears to be a malicious attack – or at least “suspicious activity” – in the servers of several of their hero title websites. The developers from Crytek have taken down Crytek.com, Mycryengine.com, Crydev.net, and MyCrysis.com, making sure to mention that GFACE.com, Crysis.com, and […]
This week the folks out there looking to be entirely anonymous (not to be mistaken for the Anonymous hacker collective) have been greeted by a message through the Tor web browser. Tor is a fork of Firefox – based in Firefox’s code, recreated as a web browser here to allow entirely anonymous web browsing. According […]
Be honest, how often do you use unsecured Wi-Fi for something you shouldn’t? You know, just a quick Facebook login at Starbucks. If you’ve done it even once, that’s too much, because making a secret spy computer that can steal all that data is dumb easy. And cheap to boot.
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The Chinese hacking collective known as APT1 has long been suspected of working with China’s army, and as such has garnered its fair share of attention from the powers-that-be. Back in February, the hackers inadvertently revealed the extent of their intentions, doing so by falling for a “honeypot” – one of several decoy water plants. […]
Last month, it was discovered that a couple of text messages can easily breach into a phone’s SIM card and get access to phone calls and other text messages without the user’s permission. However, in a brilliant move by wireless carriers, they were able to patch up the exploit without replacing millions of SIM cards. […]
Thanks to the NSA PRISM revelations we’ve all lost our innocence about government cyber-spying, but how far down that rabbit-hole has law-enforcement gone? Revelations from the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas show that such tactics are old hat for another US anti-crime department: the FBI. For instance, one ex-official said that the bureau’s analysts (shown above) can routinely turn on the microphones in laptops and Android devices to record conversations without a person’s knowledge. On top of such in-house expertise, a private sector cottage industry has sprung up around cyber surveillance, marketing programs that can also hack handheld devices and PCs. One company even markets “zero day” bugging software that exploits unknown security holes — meaning crime lords can’t just patch their browsers to avoid detection.
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Source: WSJ
The bug that allowed fake chargers to hack your iPhone
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At the Black Hat event taking place in Las Vegas, three individuals showed off a security issue that leaves iPhones and iPads open to hacks when connected to a fake charging station, something they reportedly informed Apple of earlier in 2013. An Apple spokesperson publicly thanked the researchers today in a statement to Reuters, and […]
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