Jack Newcombe, the Chief Operating Officer of a syndication company with 44 million daily readers, describes the strange voice he heard talking to his 18-month old son: She says we have a nice house and encourages the nanny to respond. She does not. The voice even jokes that she hopes we don’t change our password. I am sick to my stomach….
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Cryptography without using secret keys
Most security applications, for instance, access to buildings or digital signatures, use cryptographic keys that must at all costs be kept secret. That also is the weak link: Who will guarantee that the key doesn’t get stolen or hacked? Using a physical unclonable key (PUK), which can be a stroke of white paint on a surface, and the quantum properties of…
Data For 26 Million Stolen Payment Cards Leaked In Hack of Fraud Bazaar
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A thriving online bazaar selling stolen payment card data has been hacked in a heist that leaked the records for more than 26 million cards, KrebsOnSecurity reported on Tuesday. The 26 million figure isn’t significant only to the legitimate consumers and businesses who own the stolen cards or the financial institutions that…
Krebs Publishes ‘Interview With the Guy Who Tried To Frame Me For Heroin Possession’
“In April 2013, I received via U.S. mail more than a gram of pure heroin as part of a scheme to get me arrested for drug possession,” writes security reserch Brian Krebs. “But the plan failed and the Ukrainian mastermind behind it soon after was imprisoned for unrelated cybercrime offenses. “That individual recently gave his first interview since finishing his jail…
‘Massive’ Coordinated Campaign Hijacked Many YouTube Accounts
An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet: A massive wave of account hijacks has hit YouTube users, and especially creators in the auto-tuning and car review community, a ZDNet investigation discovered following a tip from one of our readers. Several high-profile accounts from the YouTube creators car community have fallen victim to these attacks already… But the YouTube car community wasn’t the only…
Researchers Easily Breached Voting Machines For the 2020 Election
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: The voting machines that the U.S. will use in the 2020 election are still vulnerable to hacks. A group of ethical hackers tested a bunch of those voting machines and election systems (most of which they bought on eBay). They were able to crack into every machine, The Washington Post reports. Their tests…
Biohackers Use a Raspberry Pi to Implant a Networked Hard Drive
“Biohackers took one small but important step toward the science fiction dystopia depicted in William Gibson’s Johnny Mnemonic,” reports The Parallax, in an article shared by Slashdot reader Iwastheone: The Four Thieves Vinegar biohacking collective has not figured out how to precisely mimic the memory data transfer scenario Gibson conjured, but it has built a device to enable people to store…
Twitter Disables SMS-to-Tweet Feature After Its CEO Got Hacked Last Week
Twitter is disabling the ability to send tweets via SMS messages after an incident last week when the company’s CEO Twitter account got hacked via this feature. From a report: The social network said the move is only temporary, but did not provide a timeline for the feature’s reactivation. Twitter blamed the whole issue on mobile networks and “vulnerabilities that need…
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey Has Own Account Hacked
The co-founder and chief executive of Twitter has had his own account on the service taken over by hackers. From a report: A group referring to itself as the Chuckling Squad said it was behind the breach of Jack Dorsey’s account. A spokeswoman for Twitter told the BBC that the site was urgently investigating. The account tweeted out a flurry of…
Ask Slashdot: Who Are the ‘Steve Wozniaks’ of the 21st Century?
dryriver writes: There are some computer engineers — working in software or hardware, or both — who were true pioneers. Steve Wozniak needs no introduction. Neither do Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace or Charles Babbage. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce started Intel decades ago. John Carmack of Doom is a legend in realtime 3D graphics coding. Aleksey Pajitnov created Tetris. Akihiro Yokoi…