Dear Sony: Sure, you lost 100 million user accounts, suffered a weeks-long outage, got sanctioned by your own government, and were so thoroughly humiliated that it’s amazing your executives can still show their faces in public. But look at the bright side: You get to take home a pretty pink pony.
This past weekend Sony won a Pwnie...
Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) — In the Masquerade wing of the Rio Hotel and Casino in the gambling capital of the world, there’s a giant statue of a head hanging over a lobby of slot machines.
The masked figure has two faces and four digital eyes — clairvoyant blue — that track back and forth constantly, as if recording the...
How do one ex-Air Force official and one former airplane hobby shop owner, both of whom happen to have decades of experience as network security contractors for the military, spend their weekends? Building a flying, unmanned, automated password-cracking, Wi-Fi-sniffing, cell-phone eavesdropping spy drone, of course.
At the Black Hat and Defcon...
With the Defcon 19 hacking conference set to begin in Las Vegas next week, hacking group/movement/”idea” Anonymous is touting its own “social network,” a site with the Googly moniker Anon+.
@YourAnonNews recently sent out a tweet advertising the effort, which seems to be an attempt to create an anonymous, open-source...
Researcher will demonstrate at Black Hat USA next week how ‘horrifyingly’ easy it is to disarm a car alarm system and control other GSM and cell-connected devices
It took researcher Don Bailey a mere two hours to successfully hack into a popular car alarm system and start the car remotely by sending it a message.
Bailey, a security...
