Traffic Lights Are Easy To Hack

green lightAccording to a presentation made by Cesar Cerruda, a security researcher and CTO at IOActive Labs, computerized city infrastructure components such as traffic lights and other utilities are vulnerable to cyber attacks.

Remember the scene in the movie “The Italian Job” where “the Napster” took control of the traffic lights in order to give his cohorts a literal green light to escape?  Or the scene in “Live Free and Die ...

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Chinese Rent-A-Hit Man Mobile App Yanked

fistThis one is just kooky enough it almost became a Sunday Funnies posts.

Ever just want to haul of and punch someone?  Well if you lived in China, you could hire a thug to pound your nemesis for you with a convenient Uber-like mobile app.  Evidently this app was meeting some sort of market demand over there, as 50,000 copies were downloaded before the app was pulled from mobile app store in China. ...

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Microsoft’s New Browser Is Called Edge

edgelogoThe web browser update that was scheduled to be released with the upcoming Windows 10 release, which has been code-named “Spartan” is officially being named “Edge” according to recent information from Redmond.  Internet Explorer 11 will be retained for legacy corporate web application support, but the new Edge browser is supposed to be leaner and quicker than IE, and a ...

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New DARPA Project Memex Brings Search to Dark Web

darpalogoThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the defense department group that brought us the ARPAnet, the nascent beginnings of the Internet, in 1969, has moved into the territory of Google, Bing, and Yahoo, and is creating a search tool called Memex.  The problem with the commercial search engines is that they do not catalog the Internet underground known as the Dark Web ...

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