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Your Gym Locker May Be Hackable
[ad_1] Thousands of electronic lockers found in gyms, offices, and schools could be vulnerable to attacks by criminals using cheap hacking tools to access…
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Thousands of Corporate Secrets Were Left Exposed. This Guy Found Them All
[ad_1] If you know where to look, plenty of secrets can be found online. Since the fall of 2021, independent security researcher Bill Demirkapi…
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The Hacker Who Hunts Video Game Speedrunning Cheaters
[ad_1] The night before Cecil’s Defcon talk, Maselewski wrote in a final email to WIRED that he believes those alleging that he cheated are…
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Apple Prototypes and Corporate Secrets Are for Sale Online—If You Know Where to Look
[ad_1] It’s probably been a while since anyone thought about Apple’s router and network storage combo called Time Capsule. Released in 2008 and discontinued…
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Google Researchers Found Nearly a Dozen Flaws in Popular Qualcomm Software for Mobile GPUs
[ad_1] Demand for graphics processing units or GPUs has exploded in recent years as video rendering and artificial intelligence systems have expanded the need…
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Flaws in Ubiquitous ATM Software Could Have Let Attackers Take Over Cash Machines
[ad_1] There is a grand tradition at the annual Defcon security conference in Las Vegas of hacking ATMs. Unlocking them with safecracking techniques, rigging…
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USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation
[ad_1] Smith trawled Reddit and other online sources to find people reporting the scam and find URLs being used, which he subsequently published. Some…
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Inside the Dark World of Doxing for Profit
[ad_1] Since the early 1990s, people have used doxing as a toxic way to strike digital revenge—stripping away someone’s anonymity by unmasking their identity…
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A Flaw in Windows Update Opens the Door to Zombie Exploits
[ad_1] New research being presented at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas today shows that a vulnerability in Windows Update could be…
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A New Plan to Break the Cycle of Destructive Critical Infrastructure Hacks
[ad_1] “It’s not just that the water goes out, it’s that when the sole wastewater facility in your community is down really bad things…
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Hackers red-teaming A.I. are ‘breaking stuff left and right,’ but don’t expect quick fixes from DefCon: ‘There are no good guardrails’
[ad_1] White House officials concerned by AI chatbots’ potential for societal harm and the Silicon Valley powerhouses rushing them to market are heavily invested…