The move drives home the fact that severe security issues persist in the nation’s voting machines ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
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Even after two giant busts, the Dark Web’s drug market is just as robust as it was during the Silk Road’s heyday.
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The free dongles that insurance companies ask customers to plug into their dashes could expose your car to hackers.
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To see how real a risk Internet-connected gas pumps were, Kyle Wilhoit and Stephen Hilt from TrendMicro set up a GasPot to lure hackers and watch what they would do.
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Security researchers at the Def Con hackers’ conference reveal another car’s vulnerability to attack.
Should we fear or respect the people that are increasingly finding flaws in the devices and gadgets all around us?
Debate is heating up in Indonesia over the need for new regulations for ride-hailing applications after companies such as Uber and GoJek, a homegrown motorcycle taxi and delivery business, have clashed with local transportation services.
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a probable-cause warrant under the Fourth Amendment is required for the police to obtain a suspect’s cell-site data.
The decision by the Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals gives the Supreme Court, which has never ruled on the issue, ammunition to resolve a modern-day privacy controversy affecting the tens of millions of American mobile phone users. Until Wednesday, all the federal appellate courts that have decided the issue have ruled for the government’s proposition that cell-site records are not constitutionally protected.
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LAS VEGAS—Google and its Android partners on Wednesday started distributing a fix for a vulnerability that could cause millions of phones to execute malicious code when they’re sent a malformed text message or the user is lured to a malicious website.
The flaw in an Android code library known as Stagefright was disclosed last week, several months after security researchers privately reported it to engineers responsible for Google’s Android operating system. Google engineers, in turn, have introduced changes to the Android text messaging app Messenger. The changes mitigate the threat by requiring users to click on videos before playing them.
Google began pushing out the updated app and other unspecified safeguards to Nexus devices and will be releasing them in open source later in the day, once full vulnerability details are disclosed. Google already sent the fix to hardware partners, and according to the Android Police news site, both Sprint and Samsung have started pushing out the updates. Updated handsets include the Nexus 5 and Nexus 6, the Galaxy S5, S6, S6 Edge, and Note Edge, the HTC One M7, One M8, One M9; LG Electronics G2, G3, G4; Sony Xperia Z2, Xperia Z3, Xperia Z4, Xperia Z3 Compact; and the Android One.
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Some countries’ demands for the erasure of search engine results on privacy grounds could soon affect even information available in the United States.
