Researchers attacked drones by matching their gyroscopes’ resonant frequencies, sending them crashing into the ground as they vibrated like glasses shattered by opera singers.
Monthly Archives: August 2015
Tutor gets a year in jail for hacking his students’ grades
Timothy Lai used keyloggers to break into computer systems at a school in Orange County, California, and adjust the grades of his students.
SSCC 210 – So many cool new Windows 10 features to opt out of! [PODCAST]
Enjoy the latest episode of our award-winning weekly security podcast – a quarter-hour of entertaining education.
How your battery life could be used as an undeletable cookie
Researchers have discovered that unscrupulous websites could use your laptop’s battery as a short-lived super cookie.
EFF and MuckRock run census to find out how local police track your biometrics
Fill out the EFF form to generate a public records request and find out how police are tracking your fingers, face, DNA, tattoos and more.
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.