Personal belongings of Marie Curie will continue to be radioactive for another 1,500 years! Its been over a century and even now the personal stuff belonging to the “Mother of Modern Physics” is believed to be radioactive. Madam Curie a.k.a “Mother of Modern Physics” was the first woman to win a Noble Prize…
Did you know: these were the best phones five years ago (2010)
What did smartphones look five years ago? What were the best smartphones available five years ago, and how did they look? These were the questions we asked ourselves, as we contemplated on the fact that these days it seems more and more like Android devices are increasingly becoming very similar…
Hack to steal cars with keyless ignition: Volkswagen spent 2 years hiding flaw
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Supposedly you could become a “keyless” car thief capable of stealing Ferraris or other high-end cars with keyless engine start functions such as those in Audi, Fiat, Honda, Volkswagen and Volvo vehicles if only one sentence had not been omitted from…
How The LAPD Has Been Hacking Our Phones For Years
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The LAPD has had access to a device called a “dirtbox” for the past several years. This equipment allows them to intercept calls and text messages from numerous cellphones at once. A “dirtbox” gets its name from the acronym of the…
10 years after his epic MySpace hack, Samy Kamkar is trying to turn hackers into heroes
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Samy Kamkar is in a dark room in Bally’s Casino in Las Vegas; the room is lit by blue lights and the glow of laptop screens. A DJ is spinning lyric-less music while hackers sit at round tables intermittently coding and…
Identity theft defendant sentenced to 17 years, ordered to pay $568,625
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A Miami man convicted in a fraud case involving identity theft and income tax refunds was sentenced to 17 years in prison and ordered to pay $568,625 in restitution Tuesday. Eddie Blanchard, 37, was convicted by a federal jury in May…
See what Qualcomm’s new Adreno GPU will add to next year’s Snapdragon 820
Qualcomm has unveiled its new and upcoming Adreno 530 and 510 GPUs. The next generation in mobile graphics from the company will offer improvements in both overall performance and imaging. These new chips will be bundled with the Snapdragon 820 and 620/618 respectively, which are set to arrive in 2016…
China jails TV hacker for 12 years over anti-govt broadcast
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans SHANGHAI (AFP) – An engineer who hacked into a Chinese cable television system has been jailed for 12 years, state media reported, after he broadcast denunciations of the ruling Communist party — including showing the Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” image. Wang…
SanDisk and Toshiba’s speedy new 3D NAND flash storage could grace next year’s iPhone 7
Even though Apple’s so-called iPhone 6s and 6s Plus have yet to arrive, it doesn’t hurt to take a look at what might be in the pipeline thereafter. Cupertino’s smartphone may be designed entirely by the fruit company, but it’s no secret that many (read: all) of the hardware features are…
Vietnamese computer hacker gets 13 years for selling data of 200 million Americans
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A computer hacker who peddled the stolen personal data of 200 million U.S. citizens to other cybercriminals from his Vietnamese home was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison. Hieu Minh Ngo pleaded guilty to a string of federal charges including…