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Remote Vulnerabilities in Automobiles

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Remote Vulnerabilities in Automobiles

admin January 6, 2023

This group has found a ton of remote vulnerabilities in all sorts of automobiles. It’s enough to...

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Decarbonizing Cryptocurrencies through Taxation

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Decarbonizing Cryptocurrencies through Taxation

admin January 4, 2023

Maintaining bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies causes about 0.3 percent of global CO2 emissions. That may not sound...

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Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer

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Breaking RSA with a Quantum Computer

admin January 3, 2023

A group of Chinese researchers have just published a paper claiming that they can—although they have not...

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Friday Squid Blogging: Grounded Fishing Boat Carrying 16,000 Pounds of Squid

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Friday Squid Blogging: Grounded Fishing Boat Carrying 16,000 Pounds of Squid

admin December 31, 2022

Rough seas are hampering efforts to salvage the boat: The Speranza Marie, carrying 16,000 pounds of squid...

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Recovering Smartphone Voice from the Accelerometer

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Recovering Smartphone Voice from the Accelerometer

admin December 30, 2022

Yet another smartphone side-channel attack: “EarSpy: Spying Caller Speech and Identity through Tiny Vibrations of Smartphone Ear...

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QR Code Scam

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QR Code Scam

admin December 28, 2022

An enterprising individual made fake parking tickets with a QR code for easy payment.

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Arresting IT Administrators

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Arresting IT Administrators

admin December 27, 2022

This is one way of ensuring that IT keeps up with patches: Albanian prosecutors on Wednesday asked...

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LastPass Breach

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LastPass Breach

admin December 26, 2022

Last August, LastPass reported a security breach, saying that no customer information—or passwords—were compromised. Turns out the...

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Friday Squid Blogging: Injured Giant Squid and Paddleboarder

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Friday Squid Blogging: Injured Giant Squid and Paddleboarder

admin December 24, 2022

Here’s a video—I don’t know where it’s from—of an injured juvenile male giant squid grabbing on to...

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Hacking the JFK Airport Taxi Dispatch System

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Hacking the JFK Airport Taxi Dispatch System

admin December 23, 2022

Two men have been convicted of hacking the taxi dispatch system at the JFK airport. This enabled...

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