Defcon Hacker Hacks Deere Tractor to Play Doom The right to repair folks and some manufacturers have been at odds for years regarding right to repair. John Deere has really be anti-right. This year a researcher demoed hacking a tractor and getting it to play Doom on the main display. Credit: Hackread Monero Developers “Fork” […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We don’t seem to get a lot of good news when it comes to cybersecurity. Here is one good story. Katie Yates received some nude photos of a friend, Natalie Claus (normally we don’t use names, but these women are working hard to make a point that there is nothing to be ashamed of and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Doxing is defined as the publishing of identifying information with malicious intent. Last week “threats” were made against 5 Denver area colleges. The colleges (Arapahoe Community, Community of Aurora and Denver, Front Range Community and Red Rocks Community) either closed their campuses and forced people to leave the campus or went into lockdown. Even though […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember the Equifax breach a few years ago? Almost 150 million people were affected. Now its competitor is under the microscope. The class action microscope. A class action has been filed that says that Experian did little to prevent account takeovers by bad guys. The suit, quoting Brian Krebs’ blog (yes, really), says that hackers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US Emergency Alert System Has a Minor Bug Homeland Security has issued an alert that there are critical vulnerability in the Emergency Alert System encoder and decoder devices. If left unpatched, it would allow a hacker to issue fake warnings of emergencies. The EAS is the nationwide alert system that is used to warn citizens […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Voyager Digital is a cryptocurrency “bank”. It isn’t regulated like a bank, which a problem for users. The have debit cards and make loans. They trade crypto. Accept deposits. They also offered insane “rewards” (12%) so they could invest in the crypto space. In order to fuel these crazy payouts, they had to make risky […]
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