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DARPA-Funded Hacker’s Tiny $50 Spy Computer Hides In Offices, Drops From Drones
A prototype of O’Connor’s $50 F-BOMB with its case open. (Click to enlarge.) Even more embarrassing than a student discovering your GPS tracking device on his car, as the FBI found out last year, is having to ask him to give the expensive piece of equipment back. So security researcher…
Lawmakers seek answers from Google on new privacy measures
Google’s decision this week to share user data across its online services has caught the attention of eight members of the US House of Representatives, with the lawmakers asking whether the changes will compromise privacy. The eight lawmakers, three Republican and five Democrats, said the move raises questions about consumer…
Always lock your computer (by pressing CTRL + ALT + DELETE and hitting “Enter”) before walking away from it
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Ex-Pa. police captain settles case from NY protest
Associated Press NEW YORK — A retired Philadelphia police captain arrested during a Wall Street protest in New York City is set to resolve his case without jail time or probation. Former Capt. Ray Lewis took Manhattan prosecutors’ offer Wednesday to get the disorderly conduct case closed if he avoids…
PS3 hacker Geohot moves from Facebook to…
Just over six months ago, well-known hacker George Hotz, a.k.a. Geohot, joined the straight and narrow and got a day-job at Facebook. George Hotz tells Sony how he feels in a YouTube video. (Credit: YouTube) However, word has it that he’s already gone. Business Insider reported today that Hotz left…
Product Review: SilverCloud GPS tracker from LandAirSea
Author: PoliceOne Senior Editor Doug Wyllie There are a smattering of sayings and aphorisms I have stored in my brain for use when an appropriate moment arises. One of them is “Sometimes it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission.” In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court yesterday ruled — at…
Lessons from history: The first virus
It has been 26 years to the day when the computing world was introduced to its first virus: The Brain. The Brain was a boot sector virus that was written on and for floppy disks and spread by the exchange of disks between users. The Brain which was also known…
Israeli hacker steals 85,000 Facebook logins from Arabs
In case you’ve been sleeping under a rock (or were understandably distracted by what Anonymous is up to), you may not know that Israel and Saudi Arabia are currently in the middle of a hacker war. In addition to millions of e-mail accounts, bank accounts, and credit cards, information from…
Hackers Steal $6.7 Million from South African Bank
Cybercriminals transferred money from other customers’ accounts into their own in early January. View full post on eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed View full post on National Cyber Security