Researchers Hacked The Brakes Of A Corvette With just a Text Message

Researchers have already proved last month that they can hack a Jeep. The hack was demonstrated at the Usenix security conference in Washington DC. Mobile Devices ships these dongles and and other products to many auto manufacturers and many third-party vendors. Metromile issues these dongles to car owners for tracking vehicles and charging their insurance on a per-mile basis. source: www.techworm.net

August 12, 2015 · 1 min · 61 words · Tara Macias

Wikileaks crowdfunding $109700 reward for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) secrets

However no one really knows what the TTIP draft contains. Further, two US Embassy guards are present inside the room when the European politicians read the draft. The Wikileaks pledge page says this about their crowdfunding effort, 100,000 reward for Europes most wanted secret. The TTIP covers half of global GDP and is one of the largest agreements of its kind in history. The TTIP affects the life of every European and draws Europe into long term conflict with Asia....

August 12, 2015 · 1 min · 108 words · Stephen Brown

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange could walk free as charge expires next week

While the fourth charge of rape has a 10-year statue of limitations. However indications are that the Swedish authorities may not pursue this one either. source: www.techworm.net

August 12, 2015 · 1 min · 27 words · Brian Hill

Windows 10’s broken update forces users PCs into endless reboot loop

This all started with the first major update that Microsoft rolled out for Windows 10 last week. Windows 10 automatically goes back to a previous version whenever this happens. The company has so far failed to provide a credible explanation for what exactly has gone wrong. Users within theMicrosoftforums have discovered a rogue entry within the Windows Registry causes the update to fail. The fix, however, hasnt worked for all the users....

August 12, 2015 · 1 min · 74 words · Dawn Freeman DDS

16 year old wins Valve’s Dota 2 to become youngest e-sport millionaire

With a guaranteed million in his pockets, Sumail became the youngest millionaire in e-sports following his teams achievement. The best-of-five Grand Finals series ended 3-1, with Evil Geniuses beating the dark horse, CDEC from China. Pakistan born Sumail is now a resident of Rosemont, a suburb of Chicago near OHare International Airport. I lived in Pakistan for 15 years. Evil Geniuses was the third seed but, with Sumails help, it made it to the finals....

August 11, 2015 · 1 min · 77 words · Courtney Molina

5G network is here, Samsung and Nokia demo their prototypes of 5G network

The FD-MIMO served to get more information through the airwaves. In addition, the Korean company, Samsung, also used new3D beam forming algorithms. For more details check thislink. Ghosh said: We are exploring flexible physical layer interface across all frequency bands. He also mentioned that currently Nokia is totally focused on the millimeter wave for both backhaul and access technology. We are focusing … on sub-6 GHz, centimeter wave and millimeter....

August 11, 2015 · 1 min · 86 words · Jackie Welch

Detailed insight into Android Stagefright vulnerability and how to avoid it

Suppose, the gear is safe, how can one protect the gear against this attack. This article will briefly explain all these queries. What is Stagefright attack? When user opens this video, the malicious code gets triggered and can infect the unit. Stagefright mostly affects the devices that runs on Android Jelly Bean or its earlier versions. Hence according to Google,presence of ASLRtechnologyprotects the gear from the Stagefright attack. It has already been proved by researchers that Stagefright can be triggered through apps and URLs....

August 11, 2015 · 2 min · 229 words · Jacob Thompson

FBI breaks up $30M international hacking and insider trading scheme

The nine of these were arrested by federal agents in morning raids on Tuesday in Georgia and Pennsylvania. The modus operandi of the hackers and inside traders was simple. The money was then transferred offshore through Estonian banks. More than $30 million was made in the scheme, according to sources. While PRNewswire chose not to comment immediately on the charges, the other newswires could not be contacted. At the same time, parallel civil case against some of the individuals is being pursued by the SEC....

August 11, 2015 · 1 min · 153 words · Joseph Russell

Meet Google’s New Parent Company “Alphabet”

Sergey Brin, Pages co-founder of Google, will become President ofAlphabetand Eric Schmidt will be its Executive Chairman. Alphabet is about businesses prospering through strong leaders and independence, Page wrote. We will rigorously handle capital allocation and work to check that each business is executing well. The change should allow Alphabet to better manage and scale products in fields that are not directly connected. Alphabet would replace Google as a publicly traded entity....

August 11, 2015 · 1 min · 136 words · Reginald Ramirez

Over 500 million Android smartphones vulnerable to lookalike App flaw

First it was theStagefrightvulnerability which could allow hackers to crash your smartphone just by sending a multimedia text. Now, IBMs X-Force tool Security Research Team has discovered yet another critical vulnerability in Android smartphones and tablets. The vulnerability has been dubbed as Android serialization vulnerability and given CVE-2015-3825. The PoC exploit we created attacks the highly privileged system_server process. This can then allow the attacker to perform actions on behalf of the victim....

August 11, 2015 · 1 min · 138 words · Kathleen Green

This video explains what is Dark Matter and Dark Energy

However, when it comes to understanding the universe, humans are lagging behind! According to physicists, more than 80% of the Universe is made up of dark stuff. This indicates that the unknown stuff is around 95%. Theattached video, by German design studio Kurzgesagtt tries to explain the much discussed dark matter and dark energy. The entire unit seems to be sort of a weight swinging on a string. Check out thevideofor a better understanding of this mysterious Dark matter and Dark energy in approximately six minutes....

August 11, 2015 · 1 min · 88 words · Stephen Scott

Unhackable Version of Windows Built By Israeli Security Company

Currently, the operating system is not available to the public. Until now, Microsoft is not a part of the project. source: www.techworm.net

August 11, 2015 · 1 min · 22 words · Tyler Evans

Apple spends $700,000 per year for its CEO, Tim Cook’s security

Well, Apple thinks no different and is not taking chances with its CEOs security. In the full section in question, this was under a title heading called All Other Compensation. This fiscal year Apple is all set to report $53 billion profit. source: www.techworm.net

August 10, 2015 · 1 min · 44 words · Dr. Cody Maynard Jr.