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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 22:58:55 +0000
Uber took a known industry practice and managed to turn it into something deeply suspicious. The post Uber Didn’t Track Users Who Deleted the App, But It Still Broke the Rules appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 21:11:58 +0000
By now you’ve probably let lots of services and apps into your Gmail and more. Time for some spring cleaning. The post How to Stop Services Like Unroll.me From Snooping on Your Gmail appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 11:49:00 -0700
When Microsoft asked customers last week for feedback on the portal that just replaced the decades-long practice of delivering detailed security bulletins, it got an earful from unhappy users.
“Hate hate hate the new security bulletin format. HATE,” emphasized Janelle 322 in a support forum where Microsoft urged customers to post thoughts on the change. “I now have to manually transcribe this information to my spreadsheet to disseminate to my customers. You have just added 8 hours to my workload. Thanks for nothing.”
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 17:34:01 +0000
A technique that allows thieves to silently unlock and drive away cars is getting cheaper and easier than ever. The post Just a Pair of These $11 Radio Gadgets Can Steal a Car appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Darlene Storm| Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 09:54:00 -0700
Israeli firm Argus Cyber Security recently reported that it had been able to remotely “take control of a car via Bluetooth” thanks to vulnerabilities in the Bosch Drivelog Connect OBD-II dongle.
While the hack wouldn’t affect 90 percent of cars and produce an army of “zombie cars” like was pulled off by cyber-terrorist Cipher (Charlize Theron) in the eighth installment of the Fast and Furious series, Argus researchers were able to remotely kill the engine of a moving car.
Famed car-hacker Charlie Miller isn’t too worried about a Fate of the Furious type of car hacking at this point. Bad guys remotely taking control of cars by hacking may currently be something we only see done in the movies, but the CIA was interested in hacking cars for what WikiLeaks claimed could be used to pull off “nearly undetectable assassinations.”
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Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 08:17:00 -0700
A 32-year-old Russian hacker was sentenced to 27 years in prison in the U.S. for stealing millions of payment card details from businesses by infecting their point-of-sale systems with malware.
The sentence is the longest ever handed out in the U.S. for computer crimes, surpassing the 20-year jail term imposed on American hacker and former U.S. Secret Service informant Albert Gonzalez in 2010 for similar credit card theft activities.
Roman Valeryevich Seleznev, a Russian citizen from Vladivostok, was sentenced Friday in the Western District of Washington after he was found guilty in August of 10 counts of wire fraud, eight counts of intentional damage to a protected computer, nine counts of obtaining information from a protected computer, nine counts of possession of 15 or more unauthorized access devices and two counts of aggravated identity theft.
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Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 08:17:00 -0700
A 32-year-old Russian hacker was sentenced to 27 years in prison in the U.S. for stealing millions of payment card details from businesses by infecting their point-of-sale systems with malware.
The sentence is the longest ever handed out in the U.S. for computer crimes, surpassing the 20-year jail term imposed on American hacker and former U.S. Secret Service informant Albert Gonzalez in 2010 for similar credit card theft activities.
Roman Valeryevich Seleznev, a Russian citizen from Vladivostok, was sentenced Friday in the Western District of Washington after he was found guilty in August of 10 counts of wire fraud, eight counts of intentional damage to a protected computer, nine counts of obtaining information from a protected computer, nine counts of possession of 15 or more unauthorized access devices and two counts of aggravated identity theft.
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Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:09:44 +0000
Recapping the 2017 iteration of Kaspersky Lab’s annual conference, the Security Analyst Summit, with 10 Tweets.
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