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We’re seeing car thefts in the wild accomplished through hacking: Houston police have arrested two men for a string of high-tech thefts of trucks and SUVs in the Houston area. The Houston Chronicle reports that Michael Armando Arce and Jesse Irvin Zelaya were charged on August 4th, and are believed to be responsible for more … Read More “Hackers Stealing Cars” »
At Defcon last weekend, researchers demonstrated hacks against Bluetooth door locks and Internet-enabled thermostats. Powered by WPeMatico
Citizen Lab has a new report on an Iranian government hacking program that targets dissidents. From a Washington Post op-ed by Ron Deibert: Al-Ameer is a net savvy activist, and so when she received a legitimate looking email containing a PowerPoint attachment addressed to her and purporting to detail “Assad Crimes,” she could easily have … Read More “How the Iranian Government Hacks Dissidents” »
Good article. And I was interviews on WGBH on the topic. Powered by WPeMatico
Another hijack attack against vehicles, this time trucks and buses. Powered by WPeMatico
Most of them are unencrypted, which makes them vulnerable to all sorts of attacks: On Tuesday Bastille’s research team revealed a new set of wireless keyboard attacks they’re calling Keysniffer. The technique, which they’re planning to detail at the Defcon hacker conference in two weeks, allows any hacker with a $12 radio device to intercept … Read More “Security Vulnerabilities in Wireless Keyboards” »
Disaster stories involving the Internet of Things are all the rage. They feature cars (both driven and driverless), the power grid, dams, and tunnel ventilation systems. A particularly vivid and realistic one, near-future fiction published last month in New York Magazine, described a cyberattack on New York that involved hacking of cars, the water system, … Read More “Real-World Security and the Internet of Things” »
Russia has attacked the US in cyberspace in an attempt to influence our national election, many experts have concluded. We need to take this national security threat seriously and both respond and defend, despite the partisan nature of this particular attack. There is virtually no debate about that, either from the technical experts who analyzed … Read More “Hacking the Vote” »
The Open Technology Institute of the New America Foundation has released a policy paper on the vulnerabilities equities process: “Bugs in the System: A Primer on the Software Vulnerability Ecosystem and its Policy Implications.” Their policy recommendations: Minimize participation in the vulnerability black market. Establish strong, clear procedures for disclosure when it discovers and acquires … Read More “More on the Vulnerabilities Equities Process” »
The Intercept has an extraordinary story: the NSA and/or GCHQ hacked into the Dutch SIM card manufacturer Gemalto, stealing the encryption keys for billions of cell phones. People are still trying to figure out exactly what this means, but it seems to mean that the intelligence agencies have access to both voice and data from … Read More “NSA/GCHQ Hacks SIM Card Database and Steals Billions of Keys” »