Hackers who remotely hacked into Jeep land themselves a job at Uber

Together, they will work toward building out a world-class safety and security program at Uber. The demonstration by these hackers prompted Fiat Chrysler to recall 1.4 million vehicles out of concern for their security. Miller tweeted that he was going to be joining Uber from Tuesday. This time, I wanted to do something that my grandmother would understand. If I tell her, I can hack into your car, she understands what that means....

August 30, 2015 · 1 min · 142 words · Rebecca Jones

Lets have a look at some of the highest paid positions at Google

BI used the salary data from Glassdoor to provide us the details. Hence, Google is constantly in need of hardware engineers. So hardware engineers definitely stand a chance to earn around $185,000 a year at Google. A typical corporate counsel would earn anything around $189,000 a year. The person should also have a thorough knowledge of web designing and should be a very good trouble shooter. The deserving candidate is also paid a huge amount of $193,000 a year....

August 30, 2015 · 1 min · 111 words · Martha Williamson

Supercookies Are Back In Force Giving Rise To Privacy Threats

Access set up a website calledAmibeingtracked.com, and monitored visits from 180,000 net users on their phones. Another alternate is to switch to a provider that does not use super-cookies. source: www.techworm.net

August 30, 2015 · 1 min · 31 words · Priscilla Ayers

US Teen sentenced for 11 years for running Pro-ISIS Twitter Account and Blog

He was charged for assisting ISIL via blog and Twitter posts about encryption and Bitcoin. He stood motionless as the sentence was handed down to him by U.S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton. According to the prosecutors, Amins sentencing clearly shows the governments aggressive stance towards confronting ISIS. He said: I made my decisions, and I am prepared to bear their fullest consequences. MORE AND MORE, THEIR PROPAGANDA IS SEEPING INTO OUR COMMUNITIES AND REACHING THOSE WHO ARE MOST VULNERABLE....

August 30, 2015 · 1 min · 133 words · Jessica Adams

Boeing demonstrates drone-killing laser weapon

This week Boeing held a media demonstration of its Compact Laser Weapons System in Albuquerque, N.M. This is possible because all the energy in the laser beam is focussed in a very tiny spot. Also, the tracking mechanism is precise enough to target specific parts of a drone. In addition, the cost-per-shot is also extremely low. Its something youve likely seen many times in science fiction movies, but its only now becoming a reality....

August 29, 2015 · 1 min · 92 words · William Logan

Creator Of Dendroid Malware Sold Android Hacking Software On Darkode Forum

The tool kit known as Dendroid, was sold by Culbertson in the Darkode dark Net marketplace. Dendroid was a software toolkit used to create trojanised applications that infects Android-based smartphones. According to a Darkode post by Android in October 2013, the virus took 1.3 years to fully develop. At the time of the creation of the malware, Culbertson was about 17 years old. He is a graduate of the private Winchester Thurston School, in Shadyside....

August 29, 2015 · 1 min · 107 words · Adam Massey

Facebook plans to bring “Video Matching Technology” to control Piracy

Facebook says it is also working with major media companies on the effort, but wont identify them. source: www.techworm.net

August 29, 2015 · 1 min · 19 words · Jasmine Molina

Human Brain 30 Times Faster than Best Supercomputers

Basically, Musk aims to guide thedevelopment of smarter AI with least potential threat to humanity. Basically, these scientists developed a new technique which can be used to compare human brains to supercomputers. However, a brain cannot simulate a graph like computer. Jeremy Hsu atIEEE Spectrumsays: IBMs Sequoia supercomputer currently holds the TEPS benchmark record with 2.3 x 1013TEPS. Grace pointed out A laptops worth of computing power doesnt automatically spawn Microsoft Word....

August 29, 2015 · 1 min · 138 words · Timothy Turner

Internet meme Grumpy Cat to be the first Madame Tussauds animatronic celebrity

Thats right, Madam Tussauds will create Grumpy Cats own wax animatronic figure at their museum in San Francisco. Grumpy Cat shot to international stardom when her photo was posted on Reddit on September 22, 2012. The reddit posts made her celebrity, though there were some who accused Grumpy of being a photoshop. To dispel suspicions that the image had been Photoshopped, she posted two videos to YouTube. The videos went viral, making her the darling of meme-loving macro-makers everywhere....

August 29, 2015 · 1 min · 137 words · Christine Hall

Pirate Bay founder released, re-arrested, to be extradited to Sweden

He was arrested in Cambodia in 2012 and extradited to Denmark to face charges of hacking into CSC. According to TF, he has around four weeks of prison sentence remaining in Sweden. It also reported that Sweden wanted Svartholm to serve the rest of the sentence in Denmark. [This was] never communicated properly to Gottfrid, neither from Sweden nor Denmark. Svartholm has appealed against his arrest and potential extradition to Sweden on Friday morning after he was re-arrested....

August 29, 2015 · 1 min · 80 words · Michael Mccall

‘JavaScript Browser’ Microsoft’s open-source Browser using HTML, JS and CSS

Microsoft Edgehas been received well by the users especially due to its speed. source: www.techworm.net

August 29, 2015 · 1 min · 15 words · Steven Bush

“Immortus”, world’s first solar powered sportscar being built in Australia

Well, whoever says Solar powered cant bring in the style! source: www.techworm.net

August 29, 2015 · 1 min · 12 words · Kimberly Woods

6 British teenagers arrested for using Lizard Squad’s rent a DDoS tool, Lizard Stresser

Lizard Squad who had earned infamy for bringing down the Xbox and PlayStation servers during the Christmas weekend. NCA has not named the websites which were DDoSed by the teenagers or whether the DDoS attacks were successful. Two other suspects, both 17, were arrested earlier this year. One is from Cardiff while the other is from Northolt, north-west London. As of now all the six have received bails. source: www.techworm.net

August 28, 2015 · 1 min · 70 words · Jeffrey Moore