Tech 21:37 GMT 08.03.2020Get short URL Car owners keyless start systems have had to worry in recent years about hackers being capable of hacking into cars using the radio-enabled keys and stealing them. New research has revealed that flaws in the system could allow assailants to clone the keys and access the vehicle. Researchers from Belgium’s KU Leuven and the University of Birmingham revealed this week […]
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The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control has added 20 new bitcoin addresses associated with two individuals to its list of sanctioned individuals. According to an update to OFAC’s “Specially Designated Nationals” (SDN) list, Jiadong Li and Yinyin Tian are accused of being linked to the Lazarus Group, a cybercrime group possibly affiliated with the North Korean government. The group has been accused of […]
Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, your finances, and your prosperity. UK urges parents to report their kids to police for using normal technology Police in the UK are distributing a flyer to teachers in public schools, to be passed […]
Welcome to the future we deserve. Technicians at McAfee, Inc. wanted to test out exactly how well Tesla’s Autopilot system worked. So they decided to take a strip of electrical tape and put it across the middle of the “3” in a “35 mile per hour” speed limit sign, tricking the car into thinking the sign said “85 miles per hour”. The test concludes 18 months […]
Researchers at cybersecurity firm McAfee have shown that two inches can make all the difference, fooling two types of Tesla car into speeding up by 50mph (80.5kph). Using a small, almost imperceptible sticker on a speed limit sign, the McAfee scientists were able to trick the cars’ MobilEye EyeQ3 camera system camera into thinking the sign read ‘85’ and not ‘35,’ confirming that autonomous driving systems […]
Washington accusing other states of leading cyberwarfare against the US is like “a thief crying ‘stop, thief!’” Beijing said, reacting to revelations the CIA used Swiss cryptography firm Crypto AG to spy on hundreds of countries. The US government has “conducted large-scale, organized and indiscriminate cyber theft, tapping and surveillance on foreign governments, businesses and individuals, a fact already well-known to all,” China’s Ministry of Foreign […]
Government-backed Iranian hackers have targeted universities in Europe, the United States and Australia in recent months, consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers has found, Dutch broadcaster NOS and Reuters reported on Friday. It is unclear whether the attempts to break into computer systems, including those of three Dutch universities, were successful. The hackers were attempting to steal academic literature and course material to use in Iranian schools, the NOS said, citing PricewaterhouseCoopers’ cyber security specialist Gerwin Naber. Diplomatic relations between the […]