Besides yet more white-knuckled car-jacking stunts, security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek also plan to unveil at next month’s Black Hat conference a prototype device meant to foil the type of hacks they’ve been throwing at cars.
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“Rickmote” box Rickrolls Chromecast, forcibly earworms hapless victims
Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around and desert you.
500,000-per-day SMS spammer gets just £4,000 fine
An Indian call-centre operator has been fined by a London court for breaching Data Protection laws, but despite his operation bombarding UK cell phones with spams, his punishment amounts to little more than a slap on the wrist.
Dirty Dozen Spampionship – which country is spewing the most spam?
The World Cup may be done and dusted, but the Spampionship continues! Where did you come in our spam-sending league tables?
Your Gmail account is fair game for cops or feds, says US judge
A New York court on Thursday opened up our entire Gmail accounts to feds or cops with warrants, in spite of two recent decisions that went against similar requests. 
New search engine Indexeus unmasks malicious hackers
Indexeus is a database of stolen names and passwords, many doxed from the hackers who’ve themselves doxed others’ data. Is it poetic justice, exploitation of a lucrative market, a prototype of an educational tool, or all of the above?
SoHo routers to get hacker-style scrutiny in return for “awesome” prizes
Buy a $50 SoHo router, plug it in, press a couple of buttons. Bingo! A connected household! What could possibly go wrong? If history is any guide, quite a lot…
Apple and Google told to stop misleading consumers about ‘free’ apps
The European Commission (EC) has recently been working with national authorities and app store owners to address concerns over in-app purchases, especially where those transactions are undertaken by children. Google’s response was positive, while Apple says it that it is doing “more than others” to protect parents.
Shopping site reports 3-year-old data breach
Australian shopping website CatchOfTheDay has warned customers of a data breach dating back to 7 May 2011, urging anyone who has kept the same password at the site since that date to change it.
Jailed Apple phishing duo also imported pickpockets and cloned credit cards
How’s this for irony? A pair of fraudsters phished bank account details out of over 150 Apple users by sending them hairy-scary messages about their accounts having been compromised. 