A security researcher has revealed that police body cameras could put evidence – and even police officers themselves – at risk.
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11-year-old hacker changes election results
It took him less than 10 minutes to change election results on a replica of Florida’s state website.
Facebook news feed changes – it’s a hoax!
One scoop of “copy & paste to screw with the algorithm” between two slices of “limiting news feed posts to 25 friends”. A baloney sandwich!
How a cryptocurrency-destroying bug almost didn’t get reported
A researcher recently revealed how he found a bug that could have brought the fourth largest cryptocurrency to its knees – and how he was almost unable to report it.
Siri is listening to you, but she’s NOT spying, says Apple
Apple’s working to keep iPhones from eavesdropping on us, through privacy policies, short buffer windows, local storage, and app review.
Feds indict 12 for allegedly buying iPhones on other people’s dimes
They allegedly hacked into phone accounts, convinced retailers they were who they weren’t, and upgraded to shiny new gadgets for small fees.
In-flight satellite comms vulnerable to remote attack, researcher finds
IOActive’s researcher Ruben Santamarta is the sort of person anyone interested in computer security would probably enjoy sitting next to on a long flight. Take the journey he made last November between Madrid and Copenhagen on Norwegian during which (naturally) he decided to use Wireshark to study the aircraft’s in-flight Wi-Fi.
How one man could have hacked every Mac developer (73% of them, anyway)
An inadvertently exposed login key could have spelled cybersecurity disaster for the Homebrew project, beloved of Mac developers everywhere.
Comcast Xfinity web flaws exposed customer data
It’s one thing to discover a data leak, it’s another to find out from a journalist that your website is leaking customer data.
15,000-strong army of Twitter robots found spreading cryptocurrency spam
Researchers unearthed an army of 15,000 robot Twitter accounts plying a cryptocurrency scam.