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Ace hacker, Samy Kamkar, who recently revealed the built OwnStar device that could breach GM cars wirelessly, unveiled his latest gadget that exploits a basic vulnerability in car and garage key remotes that has existed for quite some time. Car key remotes, like garage remotes, use rolling code to authenticate access. Rolling code is basically just code that changes every time so that no one can use it later. So typically when you hit “unlock” on your remote key, a unique code is sent to the car’s system, the doors open, and that code will never be used again....

Rapid7 security researcher Weston Hecker revealed the tool at Black Hat USA. Hecker said that he assembled the tool with off-the-shelf components and cost him only $6 to build. As reported by Forbes, the device can read and duplicate hotel keys, but if a potential hacker is really keen on disrupting a hotel chain, the $6 tool can also be used to “brute force” attack every guest room in the building — by guessing the keys to each room....

Mendu won the grand prize in the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge on Tuesday for her work in creating a profitable “solar leaves” design to generate energy. She also gets $25,000 for her achievement along with the winner title of “America’s Top Young Scientist.” Costing around $5 to make, the leaves are designed to help developing areas in need of inexpensive power sources. Mendu and nine other finalists along with a mentor provided by 3M worked on their projects over the last three months....

According to the Fresno Police Department, the the student was going to his home when he was approached by an unidentified mugger who attempted to steal his laptop bag. The thief brandished a black semi-automatic handgun and then fired one shot at the victim, which struck the iPhone 5s in his pocket, rather than entering his body. Much has been harped about the iPhone’s other qualities like camera and superior specs but this life saving virtue made it possible for the student to see another day....

You and I are afraid of somebody hacking our smartphones and stealing critical information, but what happens when hackers hijack a whole cellular network by hacking into cellphone towers? No, this is not an empty threat because, security researchers from the mobile security firm, Zimperium have discovered three serious security flaws in BTS stations which can allow potential hacker remotely hijack the entire cell phone tower. The Zimperium researchers have said that the flaw is so critical that it allows hackers to abuse, hijack, and crash mobile cell towers....

Many TeamViewer users are claiming that their accounts have been hacked and the hackers have emptied their PayPal and banking accounts. Those TeamViewer who have lost quite a bit of money posted their grievances on Reddit, Twitter and other social media tools expressing their anguish over TeamViewer’s official statement. Many TeamViewer users claimed that hackers used the hack making purchases while others stated that hackers were taking control of their PCs to install to malicious malware....

Wahl wanted to show that some Newtonian laws of circular motion wherein how objects with a centripetal force compel objects that are traveling to trail a curved path, speed up as they nearing a central point. The best way to demonstrate this Wahl thought was to hang 14 meters (46 feet) off a hazy-looking Norwegian warehouse, which would display it much more effectively rather than the sterile laboratories with little pulleys and weights....

In its fight against the botnets, malware and hackers, Facebook has realised that on its own it can only do so much so for ThreatEchange it has teamed up with several tech and big Internet companies. Facebook says that the ThreatExchange will be worlds first scalable threat fight data center and will be used for exchanging security threat information. Hammell says that Facebook toyed with the idea of having such a kind of threat based analysis exchange a year ago, when Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter, and Yahoo had to collaborate and exchange attack information in order to stop a massive botnet-powered malware-slinging campaign that used all of their services to reach as many users as possible....

Before, cloud mining was a simpler way to enter the crypto mining market without making large investments. Now, in some cases, it is the only way. Popular cryptocurrencies are becoming less and less profitable to mine independently – or balancing on the edge of unprofitable, as in the case of Bitcoin. To mine successfully today, we have to mine effectively. This means using specialized equipment and optimizing the process by all available means....

Here are the top 5 tools you can use to automate your marketing1. GetResponseOverview2. AweberOverview3. MailChimpOverview4. InfusionSoftOverview5. MarketoOverviewWhat’s next? Well, I don’t blame you. Considering how a person can earn thousands of dollars from having an epic website, anyone would be a little touched in the head not to pursue creating and growing their own blog. Inasmuch as I’d like to tell you, however, that creating a money making blog is as effortless as riding a bicycle downhill, I’m afraid that just isn’t the case....

The dumped documents reveal that the TTP trade agreement, if and when it will come into being, compels Internet service providers to hand over the identities of copyright infringers to rights holders. The dumped documents were studied by ZDNet and it has found that ISPs are about to be responsible for keeping track of which of their customers frequently infringe upon copyrighted material and for reporting those infringing users to content creators....

The Twitter Inc will host US citizen accounts while a separate subsidiary called Twitter International Company which will be based in Ireland will handle all non-US Twitter accounts. Twitter has chosen Ireland because of Ireland’s lax privacy laws. The reason for doing so is ostensibly to escape the court request which come from NSA and other US authorities about user details. Ireland has one of the most relaxed privacy laws in Europe and as per the current Irish laws any data processed in Europe is not made available to NSA without explicit consent of an Irish court....

Immediately after Brennan’s statement, the tech forums, social media and intelligence community came together to blame serial whistle blower and ex-NSA employee Edward Snowden for the tragic terrorist attacks in Paris. In fact many in the intelligensia went to blame Snowden for all the large scale terrorist attacks that have happened over recent years including the Boston Marathon bombings by Tsarnaev brothers. — Pumpkin Spice Graham (@ErrataRob) November 17, 2015 Despite the intelligence community’s attempts to blame NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for the tragic attacks in Paris on Friday, the NSA’s mass surveillance programs do not have a track record, before or after Snowden’s leaks in June 2013, of identifying or thwarting actual large-scale terrorist plots....

On Tuesday, Cyber Security Challenge UK launched ‘Cyphinx’, a 3D virtual skyscraper that has been created within the world of Minecraft, which will host cybersecurity games, competitions and ciphers as well provide recruitment opportunities for potential cyber security personnel, according to a release. Cyphinx will feature the first use of the game Minecraft as a cyber skill development. It will also act as a community hub where users can go and meet with others who might also be interested in a career in cybersecurity....

Jurassic World is a 2015 American science fiction adventure film directed by Colin Trevorrow. It is the fourth installment of the Jurassic Park series. The film stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D’Onofrio, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Omar Sy, B. D. Wong, and Irrfan Khan. It has been a mega hit across the world mopping up $1.526 billion upto now. Its popularity means that it has been a choice of torrent pirates and has been the top downloaded torrent since it appeared on the torrent websites....

Paradromics, Inc, a company out of San Jose and Brown University will focus on aspects of hearing and speech, while Columbia University, Fondation Voir et Entendre (The Seeing and Hearing Foundation) in Paris, France, John B. Pierce Laboratory in Connecticut and the University of California, Berkeley, will study vision. NESD is looking to design an “implantable system able to provide precision communication between the brain and the digital world. Such an interface would convert the electrochemical signaling used by neurons in the brain into the ones and zeros that constitute the language of information technology, and do so at far greater scale than is currently possible,” the agency said in a statement on Monday....

$20 Micro Controller can Hijack Computers by Emulating Mouse and Keyboard #USBDrivebyBlind FaithSystems vulnerablePrevious USB Hacks Blind Faith The gadget, dubbed USBdriveby by Kamkar, leverages the fact that many systems blindly trust USB devices connected to them. Once the USB drive is connected to a machine, it can be used to disable firewalls, download malware, change DNS settings or even to the extent of creating a backdoor onto the system. And once the device has been disconnected from the system, the victim machine can be used under attackers command and control....

G-LOC, or G-Induced Loss Of Consciousness, can occur when a pilot pulls such a tight turn that the blood drains from their head, making them pass out. That’s what happened to a U.S. Air Force trainee pilot with the call sign Ocho.G-LOC Ocho was performing some basic exercise drills over the U.S. southwest when he fell unconscious in his F-16 after reaching 8.3G. For an average person, about 5G is enough to make him unconscious....

This technology is much more advance than the previous wireless charging technologies because this will charge up batteries from as far as three feet away. And with this, we enter a complete new era of wireless charging of devices. It is able to charge battery-operated devices like phone, tablets, smart speakers, smart watches, fitness trackers etc. using a technique that Energous compares to Wi-Fi, as long as the battery-operated device has the company’s receivers....