vulnerability

Vulnerability Lets Hackers Control Building Locks, Electricity, Elevators and More

A critical vulnerability discovered in an industrial control system used widely by the military, hospitals and others would allow attackers to remotely control access systems, elevators, electricity and boiler systems, video surveillance cameras, alarms...

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Wednesday, February 6th, 2013 Net News No Comments

Oops: E-Mail Marketer Left Walmart, US Bank and Others Open to Easy Spoofing

Credit: Flickr/ejbSF Following a story we published last week about a widespread e-mail vulnerability involving weak cryptographic keys, system administrators at many companies around the world began to check their DNS records to make...

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Tuesday, October 30th, 2012 Net News No Comments

BitTorrent Users DDoS Websites Without Knowing

It’s a little known fact but The Pirate Bay and other popular BitTorrent sites have the power to take down pretty much any website on the Internet. All they have to do is add...

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Wednesday, September 19th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Face.com App Allowed Facebook, Twitter Account Hijacking

Ashkan Soltani Israel-based facial recognition maker Face.com was the internet’s flavor for a day Monday when it announced it was acquired by Facebook. Rumors put the price in the $50 to $100 million...

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Tuesday, June 19th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Tribler: BitTorrent Client that Doesn’t Need Tracker Sites, Can’t Be Shut Down

Tribler is, as the developers claim, "designed to keep BitTorrent alive, even when all torrent search engines, indexes and trackers are pulled offline," and can only be shut down if you "take down...

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Friday, February 10th, 2012 Net News No Comments