That’s how Senator Wyden described the results of DefCon’s Voting Village, where all of 100 voting systems were easily picked apart by hackers.
Tag Archives: Defcon
Air Force to offer up a satellite to hackers at Defcon 2020
This year, the Air Force presented vetted hackers with a plane’s subsystem, which they duly tore up. Next year, it will be a satellite.
‘NULL’ license plate gets security researcher $12K in tickets
The vanity plate sounded good in theory: maybe it would make his plate invisible to ALPR systems?!
Hacked devices can be turned into acoustic weapons
Security researcher Matt Wixey found that many gadgets aren’t protected from being turned into hearing-damaging weapons. Or melting.
Surprise! People choose predictable Android lockscreen patterns
New research studying how people create lockscreen patterns suggests that they aren’t a secure alternative to passcodes at all.
Who killed Proxyham?
The new and cheap anonymizing device, Proxyham, has been axed and its DEFCON talk cancelled. Was the firm hit with a gag order, or was it just hype to begin with?
Silk Road 2.0 deputy arrested after 6-month attack on Tor
Brian Richard Farrell, aka ” DoctorClu”, was arrested last week. A search warrant shows that the drug market’s kingpins were unmasked after a 6-month assault on Tor. 
SSCC 160 – That’s not just any old malware – that’s a TRUE VIRUS! [PODCAST]
Ready for listening… Here’s this week’s Sophos Security Chet Chat podcast.
War Kitteh hunts out your unsecured Wi-Fi
Coco the cat was outfitted with Wi-Fi sniffing equipment in his collar, enabling him to map out 23 unique Wi-Fi hotspots, 4 of which used feeble WEP encryption, 4 of which were wide open, requiring no password. He also caught a mouse, showing him to be adroit in both analog and digital media. 
SSCC 159.5 – Black Hat USA 2014 Conference Special [PODCAST]
The Black Hat USA 2014 conference is over, and Naked Security’s Chester Wisniewski was there in fabulous Las Vegas to take it all in. And, as we all know, what happens in Vegas… …gets faithfully reported on the internet! 