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Daily Archives: August 5, 2015
Hacked: yup, even your skateboard isn’t safe
Security researchers have revealed the latest IoT security blunder by hacking electric skateboards via a Bluetooth controller.
Interested in Mac viruses? Here’s Thunderstrike 2, a.k.a. the “firmworm”
When one door closes, another one opens. Thunderstrike, the Mac firmware hole from early in 2015, is back for its sequel, Thunderstrike 2.
Role players get cuddly with photos of other people’s kids
It’s disturbing to see your child’s photo in adoption role play. It’s scarier still to see the #BabyRP hashtag lumped in with sexual tags.
Counterterrorism expert wants to arm US companies with hack-back capabilities
Deputizing for-profit companies to give out cyberwarrants and trusting that they have the capability to even determine the source of a cyberattack: Bad idea, good idea?
Someone killed hitchBOT the hitchhiking robot – can humans be trusted?
HitchBOT was on a mission to criss-cross the United States with the help of strangers, but the hitchhiking robot came up far short of its San Francisco destination, after it was destroyed in a vicious attack in Philadelphia – the city of brotherly love.