A pigeon skeleton from WW2 with a coded message strapped to its leg was found in England in 2012. The challenge: unscramble the message!
Daily Archives: September 2, 2015
Google accused of rigging search results by India’s competition cops
“Yep, Google’s a search bully,” agree Facebook, Nokia’s maps division, MakeMy-Trip.com, Flipkart and several other companies.
Wikipedia blocks sockpuppet accounts amid blackmail claims
As part of an internal investigation, the Wikimedia Foundation found that rogue editors had violated its terms of use by creating new pages, as well as modifying existing ones for the purposes of financial gain.
Microsoft Word Intruder Revealed – inside a malware construction kit
What happens when cybercrooks take a leaf out of the Advanced Persistent Threatsters’ book? Gabor Szappanos of SophosLabs investigates…
WHSmith contact form spams out personal customer data
Users of UK newsagent chain WHSmith’s online services have reported large amounts of email arriving in their inboxes, containing personal contact data on other users.
Uber hires the guys who hacked a Jeep to develop safer driverless cars
Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, security researchers who caused huge headaches for Fiat Chrysler when they showed the world how to remotely hack a Jeep, have hacked their way into new jobs with Uber.