Saturday, August 3rd, 2013
You may hate parallel parking, but you're going to hate it even more when somebody commandeers control of your car with you in it.
That was the scary scenario painted over the first two hours at the 21st annual Defcon hacker conference.
"Car hacking is definitely coming," said Zoz, of Cannytophic Design, who presented ...
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Saturday, July 27th, 2013
The world lost a great hacker/security researcher on Thursday, just days before he was going to present his talk on hacking implantable medical devices. He stated it was possible to remotely control a pacemaker (aka kill someone) from 30 feet away and worked with the device manufacturers to secure the ...
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Sunday, January 17th, 2010
BackTrack 4 Final has now been released and aside from the many bug fixes, this version includes a new kernel, a larger and expanded toolset repository and custom tools that you can only find on BackTrack.
Download:
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/
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Saturday, September 5th, 2009
Microsoft will roll out a total of five critical patches for numerous versions of Windows operating systems in its upcoming September "Patch Tuesday" security update release, according to a Microsoft Advanced Notification bulletin posted Thursday.All five patches plug holes that allow remote code execution, indicating that hackers could remotely exploit ...
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
At the Hack In The Box (HITB) Security Conference in Dubai on Thursday, security researchers demonstrated how software they developed can already take advantage of a design problem with the upcoming Windows 7 operating system, allowing them to hack into the system. VBootkit 2.0, created by researchers Vipin Kumar and ...
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