Tag: Defcon
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A new hackathon is helping to make elections more secure
Most hackathons don’t take five years to schedule, but this one was for a good cause and worth the wait. Last month a group of hackers …
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Smashing Security podcast #335: AI chat wars, and hacker passwords exposed
AI chatbots are under fire in Las Vegas, the secrets of hackers’ passwords are put under the microscope, and Graham reveals (possibly) …
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Using AI to fight hand-crafted Business Email Compromise
Younghoo Lee is a Senior Data Scientist at Sophos. Together with Joshua Saxe, Sophos Chief Scientist, he recently presented these findings …
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Researchers demonstrate hacking traffic lights to manipulate outcome
With technology connecting everything around us, a lot of our devices also become more vulnerable and that’s one major turn down of the …
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Researcher retrieves $300,000 worth of Bitcoin from an encrypted Zip file
The person who recently faced this tragedy is a Russian investor, who reportedly bought Bitcoin worth $1.5 million back in 2016, before the …
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Defcon Is Canceled
For years, a simple and elegant inside joke has permeated Defcon, the influential hacking conference. You say it to your friends, you …
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Hacking 2020 voting systems is a ‘piece of cake’
It’s still child’s play to pick apart election systems that will be used in the 2020 US presidential election, as ethical hackers did, …
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Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables That Hack You Will Be Mass Produced and Sold
Soon it may be easier to get your hands on a cable that looks just like a legitimate Apple lightning cable, but which actually lets you …
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This Hacker Made Clothes That Can Confuse Automatic License Plate Readers
In a future where everything is surveilled by computer vision algorithms, even the patterns on our clothing can be subversive. Digital …
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This iPhone charging cable can compromise your device & steal data
With the original iPhone box coming with 1 standard charging cable, many people resort to alternatives available in the market when their …
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‘NULL’ license plate gets security researcher $12K in tickets
A vanity plate reading “NULL” sounded good to security researcher/hacker “Droogie,” at least in theory: maybe it would make his …
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Hacked devices can be turned into acoustic weapons
It’s bad enough that our devices can listen to us, whether it’s to use ultrasound to track us (even if we’re on an anonymous network) …
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