The Jig Is Up: You Can Be Prosecuted For Sharing Passwords To be clear, even though the term "hacking" is used several times in this news clip, using a password that was shared with you most definitely does not make you a hacker. Let us not allow computer illiterate judges and news reporters define terms for us!
How Hackers Could Wirelessly Bug Your Office This is pretty interesting and just goes to show what brilliant minds can do. It also shows that we should never take data security for granted, although the chances of this type of an exploit being used on an ordinary citizen are pretty unlikely since there are bigger fish to fry!
Hackers Can Now Use Sound Waves to Take Control of Your Smartphone Anyone who can figure out how to employ this exploit could have all sorts of fun!
Along these lines, it’s important to highlight that these experiments were proof-of-concept exercises that exposed serious vulnerabilities in popular consumer hardware. Pwning a smartphone to drive a toy car isn’t particularly dangerous, but the same kinds of accelerometer technology is used in real cars, drones, airplanes, medical devices, and other connected devices.
Hacked Caltrans sign targets President Trump Many of the tutorials explaining how to hack roadside signs have disappeared from the web, but if you look you can still find some. It's surprisingly easy and it doesn't take much in the way of fancy equipment. Basically the signs have some design flaws from a security point of view which are easy to exploit.