A High-school student Arsh Shah Dilbagi has invented a portable and affordable device that converts breath into speech, helping people suffering from different developmental disabilities like locked-in syndrome, Parkinson’s, or ALS to communicate using only their breath. A 16-year-old Dilbagi who hails from Harayana’s Panipat region in India has come up as the only entry […]
Continue ReadingTwo security experts in the US have demonstrated taking control of two popular models of car, while someone else was driving them, using a laptop. Speaking to the BBC ahead of revealing their research at security conference Defcon in Las Vegas in August, Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek said they hoped to raise awareness about […]
Continue ReadingOn the car forum 1Addicts, a one-time poster by the name of “stolen1m” uploaded the video showing how his BMW was stolen in under three minutes. He suspects the thieves used devices that plug into the car’s On-Board Diagnostic (ODB) port to program a new keyfob. In this particular video, there are a few security […]
Continue ReadingA team of security researchers have demonstrated how a security flaw in Android 4.0.4 can be exploited by a clickjacking rootkit. The research team is lead by North Carolina State University professor Xuxian Jiang, who succeeded in developing a proof-of-concept rootkit that attacks the Android framework as opposed to the underlying operating system kernel. The […]
Continue ReadingEarlier today, Anonymous released a confidential conference call between the FBI and law enforcement officers in the UK. The 16-minute call discusses ongoing investigations into hackers associated with Anonymous, AntiSec, and LulzSec. From all appearances, Anonymous retrieved the sensitive access code information and a list of attendees from an FBI email account. The group released […]
Continue ReadingSecurity expert Thomas Cannon working at viaForensics as the Director of R&D has demonstrated a custom-developed app that installs a backdoor in Android smartphones – without requiring any permissions or exploiting any security holes. Thomas built an app which requires no permissions and yet is able to give an attacker a remote shell and allow […]
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