Robot cracks open safe live on Def Con’s stage – BBC News
Using a cheap robot, a team of hackers has cracked open a leading-brand combination safe, live on stage in Las Vegas.The team from SparkFun Electronics was able to open a SentrySafe safe in around 30 minutes.The robot is able to reduce the number of possible...
How the Broadpwn Wi-Fi Vulnerability Impacted a Billion iPhones and Android Phones | WIRED
IF YOU HAVEN'T updated your iPhone or Android device lately, do it now. Until very recent patches, a bug in a little-examined Wi-Fi chip would have allowed a hacker to invisibly hack into any one of a billion devices. Yes, billion with a b.A vulnerability that...
Kasparov: ’Embrace’ the AI revolution – BBC News
Humans should embrace the change smart machines offer society, says former chess world champion Garry Kasparov.In a speech at Def Con in Las Vegas he said the rise of artificially intelligent machines would not be a huge threat to humanity.However, he said, there was...
MacPaw acquires The Unarchiver and commits to… | MacPaw Blog
MacPaw just bought the Unarchiver, one of the Top Free apps on the Mac App Store. Were super stoked about the news. We promise to maintain, improve, and keep it free for everyone.Now let us tell you the whole story. This week we did something big: we took it upon...
Laurene Powell Jobs buys majority stake in The Atlantic magazine, owner of qz.com | 9to5Mac
Steve Jobs widow Laurene Powell Jobs has bought a majority stake in The Atlantic magazine, whoch also owns the business news site qz.com.NordVPNShe described The Atlantic as one of the countrys most important and enduring journalistic institutions, but told...
Can Bozoma Saint John repair Uber’s troubled image? | Technology | The Guardian
Bozoma Saint John stole the show at Apples annual developer conference in 2016, injecting some cool into a sea of dad-dancing during her presentation on the companys music-streaming service.Last month she joined Uber as the companys first ever chief brand officer,...
Bug in top smartphones could lead to unstoppable malware, researcher says | Technology | The Guardian
A recently patched bug found in the chips used to provide wifi in iPhones, Samsung Galaxies and Google Nexus devices could be used to build malware whoch jumps unstoppably from device to device, according to Nitay Artenstein, the researcher who discovered the...
Iranian hackers used female ’honey pot’ to lure targets: researchers
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Hackers believed to be working for the Iranian government have impersonated a young female photographer on social media for more than a year, luring men working in industries strategically important to Tehran's regional adversaries, according to...
SVT:s Oskar Jönsson: Hemliga källor ledde fram till avslöjandet | SVT Nyheter
ANALYS · Efter att det blivit känt att Maria Ågren bötfälts för att ha röjt sekretessbelagda uppgifter kunde jag och mina kollegor på SVT Nyheter som första nyhetsredaktion avslöja att det handlade om en stor dataupphandling.Transportstyrelsen hade gjort känsliga...
Italy’s UniCredit reveals data attack involving 400,000 clients
MILAN (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Milan have launched a probe into a data breach at UniCredit (CRDI.MI) affecting around 400,000 customers of the Italian bank, judicial sources said on Wednesday.Italy's postal police, whoch specialize in digital crimes, is conducting...
You can thank Stormtroopers for the look of Apple AirPods | TechRadar
I hate to break it to you, but if youve worn a pair of Apple EarPods or AirPods recently, you were tacitly supporting the Empire you know, that military group from Star Wars that tried to control the universe through fear and exploitation. In what has to be one of...
Perverse malware infecting hundreds of Macs remained undetected for years | Ars Technica
A mysterious piece of malware that gives attackers surreptitious control over webcams, keyboards, and other sensitive resources has been infecting Macs for at least five years. The infectionsknown to number nearly 400 and possibly much higherremained undetected...