Security

Air Traffic Control of the Future Is (Still) Incredibly Hackable

Automated Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast, or ADS-B, is the future of Air Traffic Control. It’s an automated system that allows hardware on planes to radio in the aircraft’s coordinates to the tower, instead of using radar to pick up each plan individually. Problem is, you can hack it to hell. While the ADS-B is safeguarded against more…

Privacy & Security Kyle Wagner

You Can’t Even See The Latest ATM Card Skimmers

While there have been plenty of terrifyingly realistic card skimmers in the past, we have bad news for you: the latest breed of skimmers are so thin that they’re inserted into the ATM, so you can’t see them at all. https://gizmodo.com/this-skimmer-is-why-you-should-be-nervous-at-atms-5904949/ Krebs on Security rounds up a handful or recent reports, and the news makes…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

This Innocent-Looking Power Strip Can Hack Almost Any Computer Network

What looks to the layman like a chunky under-the-desk computer power strip is actually a full-fledged hacking tool designed to let white hat hackers (aka the ‘good’ guys) test the security level of a given computer network, wired or wireless. With Wi-Fi, ethernet, Bluetooth, and an entire suite of hacking software tools built-in, the Power…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Judge: Your Seized Phone Can Be Used to Impersonate You to Spy on Your Friends

A judge has ruled that if your phone is seized by the police, it’s completely legal for them to send and receive text messages pretending to be you to try to convince your contacts to incriminate themselves. What? Story goes, in 2009, police seized a phone that belonged to Daniel Lee, a suspected drug dealer.…

Privacy & Security Kyle Wagner

Scientific Security: Storing Passwords in Your Subconscious

While creating a secure password isn’t all that difficult, remembering it often is. And while you could use a manager like 1password, here’s a new idea proposed by a team of scientists: try storing them in your subconscious memory instead. https://gizmodo.com/your-passwords-suck-5880448 A team of US neuroscientists and cryptographers from Stanford University, Northwestern University and SRI…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

This Data Center Is Protected by a Fortress of Defense

If you want to know how to protect a data center in 2012 you don’t have to look further than the QTS Richmond Data Center. With what seems like a fortress surrounding it, the data center meets all the Department of Defense anti-terrorism force protection physical requirements. That’s serious stuff. Here’s what else the QTS…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan

Dropbox Users Report Unusual Spam and Possible Security Breach

Over the past day, Dropbox users have reported receiving spam in email accounts created exclusively for the service. The company has confirmed the reports and says it’s investigating. Are our Dropbox passwords safe? TechCrunch reports that users in the Dropbox forums pointed out the weird spam email about a day ago. The users, most of…

Privacy & Security Mario Aguilar

Unlocking the Master Lock dialSpeed Is Like Playing a Video Game

This Master Lock dialSpeed ditches the old combination wheels of yore and flimsy directional joysticks of two years ago for something more techy: an electronic directional interface that’s more like a d-pad than a lock. You can customize the code, create multiple unlock codes and if you’ve forgotten ’em all, use a master code. The…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan

Skype Instant Messaging Is Sharing Conversations with Random Contacts (Updated)

Skype has acknowledged a bug that is affecting users in pretty much the most horrifying way possible. Instant messages sent over Skype are being sent to random contacts—even contacts you’ve never connected with before. Here’s Skype’s official statement on the matter: “We are aware that in rare circumstances IM’s between two contacts could be sent…

Privacy & Security Kyle Wagner

Hackers Grab 1 Million Logins From Android Forum

Phandroid has announced that a hacker has recently accessed its user database, making off with usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords—and the problem looks like it could affect all of its one million-plus users. In a forum post announcing the problem, administrators explained that the hack was most likely an email harvesting scheme. While Phandroid…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How to Check If Your Email Password Was One of 453,000 Leaked This Morning

The passwords to 432,000 email accounts were leaked earlier today. They were leaked from an older Yahoo file associated with the Yahoo! Contributor Network. Yahoo claims that only about 5 percent of the accounts had valid (current) passwords, but here’s how to check if your ancient account is one of them. https://gizmodo.com/hackers-grab-and-expose-453-000-yahoo-login-details-5925351 Security company Sucuri…

Privacy & Security Kyle Wagner

Hackers Grab and Expose 453,000 Yahoo Login Details

Hacking collective D33Ds Company has posted login details for more than 453,000 user accounts that it claims to have retrieved in plaintext from an unconfirmed service on Yahoo. Ars Technica is reporting that the hackers used a union-based SQL injection to penetrate a Yahoo subdomain—a technique which, according to Ars, “preys on poorly secured web…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Facebook Wants to Keep You Virus-Free

Facebook may be a little lax when it comes to privacy, but it seems to be doubling down on security. The site is now directing users who think their computer might be infected with malware to sites where they can get free antivirus software. The new Malware Checkpoint will send PC-users to sign up for…

Social Media Jamie Condliffe

Google Faces FTC’s Largest Ever Fine Over Safari Cookie Debacle

Five months on from the Wall Street Journal spotting that Google was circumventing cookie privacy settings in Safari, the big G is now close to settling the matter with the FTC. There’s one bitter pill that still remains to be swallowed, though: the WSJ reports that Google is set to pony up $22.5 million, the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Your Cell Phone Is Under More Surveillance Than Ever

United States law enforcement agencies are requesting user information such as “text messages, caller locations and other information” at an alarming rate—at least 1.3 million requests last year alone—according to cellular carriers. This is our new age of digital law enforcement: The cops are coming for your cell phones, and the law is too dumb…

Privacy & Security Kyle Wagner

How to Choose a Secure Pet Name

Most secure services ask users for some personal details to generate security questions. Some of the classics you can do little about—but humor news site NewsBiscuit amusingly points out that pet names can, and should, be changed on a regular basis in the interests of security. In their satirical news article, they joke about a…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Your Internet Might Shut Off Tomorrow Because of a Virus—Here’s How to Fix It

Tonight at 12:01 AM EDT Monday July 9th, the Internet is going to become inaccessible for nearly half a million people around the world because of malware called DNS Changer. If your computer is infected with DNS Changer, it won’t be able to get on the Internet anymore. Here’s how to get rid of it…

Privacy & Security Casey Chan

How to Get on a Plane Without ID

Because July 4th falls on a Wedneday, a lot of Americans will spend a five-day weekend traveling and drinking. It’s pretty common to misplace a wallet or a purse on that kind of vacation. And getting on a return flight without a valid ID, as you might imagine, is not easy. But it can be…

Privacy & Security Andrew Tarantola

Is Someone Trying to Hack the Dalai Lama?

If you didn’t know, the Dalai Lama is a Mac user. He also happens to be an advocate for an ethnic Turkish group spread throughout Eastern and Central Asia who are embroiled in a human rights battle with the Chinese government. The combination of these two factors have security firm Kaspersky Labs believing that a…

Privacy & Security Adrian Covert

Computer Scientists Crack RSA’s Ironclad Secure ID 800 Tokens (Updated)

If you’re used to seeing a device like this on a daily basis, you probably assume that it’s a vital security measure to keep your employer’s networks and data secure. A team of computer scientists beg to differ, however— because they’ve cracked the encryption it uses wide open. Update: RSA has now explained why the…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Air Traffic Control of the Future Is (Still) Incredibly Hackable

You Can’t Even See The Latest ATM Card Skimmers

This Innocent-Looking Power Strip Can Hack Almost Any Computer Network

Judge: Your Seized Phone Can Be Used to Impersonate You to Spy on Your Friends

Scientific Security: Storing Passwords in Your Subconscious

This Data Center Is Protected by a Fortress of Defense

Dropbox Users Report Unusual Spam and Possible Security Breach

Unlocking the Master Lock dialSpeed Is Like Playing a Video Game

Skype Instant Messaging Is Sharing Conversations with Random Contacts (Updated)

Hackers Grab 1 Million Logins From Android Forum

How to Check If Your Email Password Was One of 453,000 Leaked This Morning

Hackers Grab and Expose 453,000 Yahoo Login Details

Facebook Wants to Keep You Virus-Free

Google Faces FTC’s Largest Ever Fine Over Safari Cookie Debacle

Your Cell Phone Is Under More Surveillance Than Ever

How to Choose a Secure Pet Name

Your Internet Might Shut Off Tomorrow Because of a Virus—Here’s How to Fix It

How to Get on a Plane Without ID

Is Someone Trying to Hack the Dalai Lama?

Computer Scientists Crack RSA’s Ironclad Secure ID 800 Tokens (Updated)

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