Millions of point-of-sale systems and hotel room locks can be hacked by temporarily placing a small, inexpensive device several inches away from their card readers. The device, due to be presented Sunday at the DEF CON conference in Las Vegas, is the creation of Weston Hecker, a senior security engineer at Rapid7. It was inspired […]
A talk about a radio-based privacy device dubbed #proxyham that promised to allow hackers to connect to Wi-Fi #networks from as far as 2.5 miles away was abruptly pulled from the #def con schedule by its creator a few weeks ago. The incident, which some speculated was the result of pressure from the FBI or […]
The non-profit group, known as I am the Cavalry, is asking attendees at this weekends Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas to sign an open letter to Automotive CEOs to ask them to implement basic guidelines to defend cars from cyber attacks. Now is the time for the automotive industry and the security community […]
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