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  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by Pfennig88
    +31 +1

    Thieves use chip-and-pin cards to steal up to $50k from ATMs

    Touted as a safer solution to magnetic stripe cards, it seems the chip-and-pin (or EMV) counterpart might not be as secure as we once thought. After retailers around the globe made the switch to the new technology we’re now uncovering vulnerabilities in the cards that make them only marginally superior to their predecessor. A new ATM hack demonstration shows just how vulnerable they are. In the demonstration, hackers were able to use a common chip-and-pin card to withdraw money from an ATM in under 15 minutes.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by JaminAndrews
    +4 +1

    Census website attacked by hackers, ABS claims

    The census website was shut down after being attacked by foreign hackers, the Australian Bureau of Statistics says.

  • Analysis
    7 years ago
    by junglman
    +27 +1

    Have a smart lock? Yeah, it can probably be hacked

    Once a year, security enthusiasts gather at the Las Vegas-based hacker convention DEF CON to call out vulnerabilities in the tech industry. At DEF CON 2016 -- the 24th such meeting -- presenters Anthony Rose and Ben Ramsey from Merculite Security focused on smart locks. And the news wasn't good. Specifically, the duo tested 16 different Bluetooth-enabled locks and found that 75 percent had "insufficient BLE security." You can find their 42-page slide presentation here, but the gist is that Rose and Ramsey were able to access multiple...

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by TNY
    +35 +1

    Hacker demonstrates how voting machines can be compromised

    Concerns are growing over the possibility of a rigged presidential election. Experts believe a cyberattack this year could be a reality, especially following last month's hack of Democratic National Committee emails. The ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee sent a letter Monday to the Department of Homeland Security, saying in part: "Election security is critical, and a cyberattack by foreign actors on our elections systems could compromise the integrity of our voting process."

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by geoleo
    +30 +1

    Mom discovers security cameras hacked, kids' bedroom livestreamed

    A mother in Houston, Texas woke up one morning to pretty much every parent's worst-case scenario. "I happened to get a text from a friend of mine that said she saw a picture on Facebook and she thought it was a picture of our daughters' room," Jennifer, who asked to keep her last name private, told ABC subchannel KTRK. As it turned out, the security cameras she'd installed in her daughter's room to keep them safe had been hacked and the footage had been uploaded on the internet to livestream.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by baron778
    +43 +1

    Hackers Say They Hacked NSA-Linked Group, Want 1 Million Bitcoins to Share More

    A mysterious group claims to have stolen some hacking tools allegedly belonging to the NSA.

  • Analysis
    7 years ago
    by larylin
    +43 +1

    Commentary: Evidence points to another Snowden at the NSA

    In the summer of 1972, state-of-the-art campaign spying consisted of amateur burglars, armed with duct tape and microphones, penetrating the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. Today, amateur burglars have been replaced by cyberspies, who penetrated the DNC armed with computers and sophisticated hacking tools.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by Chubros
    +16 +1

    FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

    The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers penetrated two state election databases in recent weeks, prompting the bureau to warn election officials across the country to take new steps to enhance the security of their computer systems, according to federal and state law enforcement officials.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by funhonestdude
    +21 +1

    Edward Snowden attacks Russia over human rights and hacking

    The US whistleblower Edward Snowden has attacked his Russian protectors by criticising the Kremlin’s human rights record and suggesting that its officials have been involved in hacks on US security networks.

  • Expression
    7 years ago
    by canuck
    +5 +1

    Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet

    Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely calibrated attacks designed to determine exactly how well these companies can defend themselves, and what would be required to take them down. We don't know who is doing this, but it feels like a large a large nation state. China or Russia would be my first guesses.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by geoleo
    +33 +1

    Teen hacker infiltrates numerous FTP servers owned by the U.S. government

    On Monday, a report surfaced claiming that a teen hacker using the alias “Fear” managed to gain access to hundreds of FTP servers owned by the U.S. government. The hacker initially gained access to one server, but then discovered that it listed the access credentials to all FTP servers residing on the .us and .gov domains. The .us servers include public data, private data, program source code, and more sensitive data, while the hacker wouldn’t say what’s loaded on the .gov sites.

  • Analysis
    7 years ago
    by Dracher
    +30 +1

    Hackers Stole Account Details for Over 60 Million Dropbox Users

    Although the accounts were stolen during a previously disclosed breach, only now is the extent coming to light.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by b1ackbird
    +31 +1

    Chinese hackers take over moving Tesla from 12 miles away

    Chinese white-hat hackers (hackers that expose vulnerabilities with good rather than pernicious intentions) just proved that Tesla has a significant security risk on its hands.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by wildcard
    +17 +1

    Oversight orders Reddit to preserve deleted posts in Clinton investigation

    The House Oversight Committee has ordered Reddit to preserve deleted posts believed to be written by an IT technician the committee suspects may have deleted Hillary Clinton emails that were under subpoena. Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) confirmed that the committee has issued a preservation order and that Reddit is “cooperating.” The order "has the weight of law, you can't destroy things and hope things magically get erased,” he told The Hill Wednesday.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by Dracher
    0 +1

    Yahoo! Confirms Hack of 500 Million Accounts

    A recent investigation by Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen from the company’s

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by bradd
    +40 +1

    More state election databases hacked than previously thought

    Multiple law enforcement sources tell CBS News homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues that more U.S. state election databases have been hacked than previously thought. According to sources, a total of about 10 states have had their systems probed or breached by hackers, similar to what happened in Arizona and Illinois. CBS News has learned that government officials are increasingly concerned about Russian efforts to disrupt or influence the 2016 presidential election.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by larylin
    +46 +1

    These Are Supposedly The Words That Make The NSA Think You're A Terrorist

    This is an (admittedly huge) list of words that supposedly cause the NSA to flag you as a potential terrorist if you over-use them in an email. We found this on Reddit, where James Bamford, a veteran reporter with 30 years experience covering the NSA, is answering questions from the community. He just wrote a big profile for Wired on NSA director Keith Alexander that's really good and well worth a read.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by geoleo
    +9 +1

    Meet ORWL. The first open source, physically secure computer

    If someone has physical access to your computer with secure documents present, it’s game over! ORWL is designed to solve this as the first open source physically secure computer. ORWL (pronounced or-well) is the combination of the physical security from the banking industry (used in ATMs and Point of Sale terminals) and a modern Intel-based personal computer. We’ve designed a stylish glass case which contains the latest processor from Intel – exactly the same processor as you would find in the latest ultrabooks and we added WiFi and Bluetooth wireless connectivity for your accessories.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by kong88
    +28 +1

    Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for US intelligence

    Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The company complied with a classified U.S. government directive, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said two former employees and a third person apprised of the events.

  • Current Event
    7 years ago
    by zyery
    +17 +1

    Spy Tech 'Hacks WhatsApp Encrypted Chat From A Backpack'

    An Israeli company is marketing what appears to be an astonishing surveillance capability, claiming it can siphon off all WhatsApp chats, including encrypted communications, from phones within close proximity of a hidden Wi-Fi hacking device in a backpack. Brochures leaked to FORBES, and published below, revealed a non-public offering from Haifa-based Wintego called CatchApp. It promises an “unprecedented capability” to break through WhatsApp encryption and grab everything from a target’s account. It does so through a “man-in-the-middle” (MITM) attack; in theory the traffic is intercepted between the app and the WhatsApp...