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Public Chargers Could Hack Your iPhone
The upcomign Black Hat security conference features a topic that may give traveling iPhone users second thoughts about using a public charging station to juice up their phones. Three security researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology have built a prototype device that can hack an iPhone through the dock connector merely by being plugged in. Supposedly
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Chinese Hackers Have Allegedly Stolen US Military Weapon Designs
According to the Washington Post, the Pentagon has recently received a report that states that over 2 dozen US weapon systems plans and specifications have been stolen via digital attacks on defense contractor and subcontractor systems. The list of possibly compromised systems include several key military assets such as the FA-18 fighter, the F-35 Joint
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Hackers Crack Hashed Passwords in Minutes
In a controlled experiment run by technology website ArsTechnica.com, hackers were given a list of over 16000 hashed passwords and asked to try to decipher as many as possible. Not only were they able to crack over 90% of the passwords in about 20 hours, one of them managed to decipher over 60% of the
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US Utilities Under Constant Cyberattack
A Congressional report authored by California Representative Michael Waxman and Massachusetts Representative Ed Markey publicizes that some United States utility companies are under constant cyberattack. Based upon a survey of 160 utilities, the publication notes that a dozen of the respondents report that they experience “daily, constant or frequent attempted cyber attacks.” Congress and the
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Dell to Ship Ultra Compact Computer in July
Dell, on the tail-end of a dismal earnings report that failed to meet Wall Street’s expectations, has been busily diversifying its product offerings in the face of flagging PC computer sales. The fruit of one of those diversifications is coming from Dell’s recently purchased WYSE division, a manufacturer known most prominently for their thin-client platforms,
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Facebook Phone Flops
If you were someone who worried that Facebook was taking over the world, one market segment at a time, it would seem that the smartphone front is safe, for now. As part of the launch of its new pseudo smartphone OS “Facebook Home” back in April, the social media giant had also announced a partnership
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