A Lufthansa flight on final approach to Warsaw nearly hit a drone flying about 100 meters away, according to the Aviation Herald, an Austrian news site.
Month: July 2015
Fiat Chrysler “connected car” bug lets hackers take over Jeep remotely
A pair of computer security researchers based in St. Louis demonstrated weaknesses in an automobile system with cellular connectivity installed in as many as 471,000 vehicles in the US. Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek highlighted the vulnerability of the system by attacking a Jeep Cherokee equipped with the Uconnect system remotely while Wired‘s Andy Greenberg was driving it.
Adultery Website Ashley Madison Is Hacked
Hollywood’s Other Piracy Problem: 3-D Printers
The rise of 3-D printing is a looming threat for Hollywood. Prices for legitimate products could drop, as 3-D printers start to crowd the marketplace with viable alternatives to the toy store.
Anonymous targets IS sympathisers
Social media users sympathetic to the Islamic State group are being targeted by the hacktivist group Anonymous
How gaming can make the world safer
How playing online can help make the world a safer place.
Battery failure for new Routemaster
A number of new Routemasters’ batteries do not work which means some of the vehicles which are meant to be environmentally friendly are running on just diesel.
Hacking Team built drone-based Wi-Fi hacking hardware
Leaked e-mails from the Italy-based computer and network surveillance company Hacking Team show that the company developed a piece of rugged hardware intended to attack computers and mobile devices via Wi-Fi. The capability, marketed as part of the company’s Remote Control System Galileo, was shown off to defense companies at the International Defense Exposition and Conference (IDEX) in Abu Dhabi in February, and it drew attention from a major defense contractor. But like all such collaborations, it may have gotten caught up in the companies’ legal departments.
Your body, the battery: Powering gadgets from human “biofuel”
Technology has always been intimately linked to the human body. From sharpened flint to smartphones, we’ve been carrying our inventions for millennia—but the relationship is about to get even closer. The next generation of electronic devices might not just be near our bodies, they could be powered by them.
Microsoft and Rackspace Form Cloud Alliance
Microsoft Corp. and data center services company Rackspace Hosting Inc. are teaming up to ease customers over barriers to using Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing service.