NeuroVigil, a neurodiagnostics company headquartered in San Diego, has developed a way to hack your brain during sleep by using a headband fitted with electrodes to the wearer’s head to record brainwaves. The company hopes this technology could be used to help people with neurological disorders, such as prominent physicist and author Stephen Hawking, communicate. […]
After the Washington D.C. election board announced a new e-voting system for absentee ballots in 2010, they invited the computer security community and general public to try hacking it, several weeks before using it in a real election. Professor Alex Halderman of the University of Michigan felt “It was too good an opportunity to pass […]
Poor Google Wallet, hacked twice in 48 hours. Bad enough that Google has had difficulty getting the payment service approved by Verizon for its flagship Galaxy Nexus. Now, just as people are figuring out simple ways to get Wallet on their phones, a new scandal rocks the nascent world of Android mobile payments. Wednesday evening, […]
Remember July of last year, when the U.S. Copyright Office said it was totally cool for you to jailbreak your iPhone and there wasn’t squat Apple could do about it? It’s time for the rest of the tech industry to shake in their collective boots, because the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the group that was at […]
Columbia University professor Salvatore Stolfo warns of a potential security issue with HP printers (and quite possibly other brands as well). Stolfo, while doing research with his Ph.D student Ang Cui, discovered most HP laser printers allow unsigned remote firmware updates, meaning anyone can upgrade the printer’s internal software without it verifying the update comes […]
For those who don’t follow DefCon, you’re missing out. A great assemblage of hackers and crackers in both the black hat and white hat variety, you’re almost guaranteed some great stories (not to mention drama). This year, DefCon thinks of the future with DefCon Kids, their first ever meeting aimed at younger hackers (think Oliver […]
Skype released version 2.1 of their video-enabled Android software this morning, bringing more supported devices with it this time.
