Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 2:19pm
Horrifyingly, redirecting or crashing the hijacked plane is well within this app's capability.
Hacking stories
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 2:12pm
Hacking attacks from China have made headlines recently and a group of investigators believe the military may be behind the activities.
Saturday, February 2, 2013 - 11:47am
Company reports breach in security was "extremely sophisticated"
Friday, November 16, 2012 - 4:29pm
Researchers at Virginia Tech have asserted that the LTE signal for an area as wide as a city could be disrupted with radio equipment that costs as little as $650. The researchers go on to say that LTE is especially vulnerable to disruption when compared to older 2G and 3G networks.
Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 5:09pm
I grew up playing Zelda. A Link to the Past doubled as my favorite storybook, and I spent my time away from the game dreaming about what it'd be like to adventure like Link — or "Kevin," as the game lets you pick your own name. The character was mine, and now a father is going to great lengths to ensure his daughter can have that same experience.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 1:57pm
What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they'll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware. Whoa.
Sunday, August 5, 2012 - 1:22pm
Obviously, hacking can be a major problem. Gross amounts of money have been spent in an attempt to prevent hacking, and Internet security remains an important issue. Still, it happens. On Friday, Reuters was hacked and fake stories were posted concerning Syria.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 7:37am
What do you do if you manage to hack Grammy award-winning and controversial dresser Lady Gaga's Twitter and Facebook accounts? Go phishing and pretend you're giving away iPads to her millions of "little monsters." That's what hackers tried to do yesterday, before the the hacking ended.
Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 2:17pm
According to a congressional commission report to be released next month, on four separate occasions between 2007 and 2008, hackers (who may or may not have been affiliated with the Chinese government) were able to take complete control of two U.S. satellite systems, Landsat-7 and Terra (EOS AM-1), for up to 12 minutes at a time.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 7:54am
What if you could highjack someone else's video chat in real time and essentially steal their face? That's the idea one creative coder had when concocting this real-time video chat masking hack, and the effect is amazing.
