Category: Hacking

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Watch Hardware Hackers Fly A Drone Over The Burj Khalifa, The Tallest Building In The World

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As reported on TechCrunch.  by John Biggs Robotics isn’t all stomping metal men and robotic dogs – it’s also about beauty. The folks from Team BlackSheep proved this by flying a powerful, long-range drone over the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. And when I say over I mean over. The average drone can hit about 165 feet before panicking and coming back to earth. TBS uses the TBS Discovery, a drone with a range of up to three kilometers. The team travelled to the UAE…

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All The Important Stuff From TechCrunch Disrupt NY

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Josh Constine  So what happened at Disrupt NY? With 25 panels, 27 startup demos, and a hackathon, TechCrunch’s annual gathering in New York produced plenty of news, insight, and controversy. Even if you were there in person it was a lot to process, so we’ve compiled a Cliff’s Notes for the conference.For starters, here’s a supercut of the best soundbites: Facebook LinkedIn Say What? The Quotable Disrupt NY Keynotes, Panels, And Fireside Chats Fred…

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Inside The Billion-Dollar Hacker Club

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Steve O’Hear   For this group of old friends, assembled for an impromptu reunion, the venue would feel familiar: an online chat room running on a secure private server. Each were former members of the elite hacking group “w00w00” and they had reconvened that afternoon to celebrate and share in the success of one of their own. In some ways it was just like old times.   But rather than success…

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Strange malware thought to communicate over computer speakers

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris An in-depth report from Ars Technica highlights a rootkit (a piece of software that typically hides itself deep in an operating system’s Kernel or a computer’s BIOS) that is capable of communicating with nearby computers using a system’s speaker and microphone. Dubbed “badBIOS,” the malware has been plaguing renowned security researcher Dragos Ruiu’s computers for three years. Similar in nature to many other rootkits, badBIOS does its best to prevent users from erasing…

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12-year-old boy admits to hacking government sites for Anonymous

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As reported on The Verge. By Adrianne Jeffries A 12-year-old boy in Montreal has pleaded guilty to breaking into multiple government and police websites in the name of the hacker collective Anonymous, reports theToronto Sun. The attacks were not politically motivated, however; the boy testified that he traded information to members of Anonymous in exchange for videogames. The boy admitted to hijacking websites for the Montreal police, the Quebec Institute of Public Health, and the Chilean…

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My Experience As A Fourth Grade Hacker

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEXANDRA JORDAN When Alexandra Jordan presented at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, the fourth grader from Sunnyvale, CA proved to be something of an audience favorite. Jordan conceived of and coded her own hack, a playdate app called Super Fun Kid Time, which she is planning to launch in November.  In honor of the International Day of the Girl — formally recognized by the United Nations on October 11th, 2012 — we asked Jordan to write a…

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Hotel Wi-Fi Sucks: Create Your Own Hotspot Using the Room’s Ethernet Connection

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As reported on Wired. BY ROBERTO BALDWIN Plug and play. Photo: Josh Valcarcel/WIRED   From the creepiest $20 per night skid-row flophouse to the presidential suite at Hong Kong’s InterContinental, Wi-Fi is now as standard as a toilet in the hotels and motels around the world. If only that connection to the internet worked as well as your trusty porcelain throne. Instead of dealing with spotty connections and speeds that resemble early ’90s dialup, use the hotel’s…

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Shutting Down The US Government Likely Won’t Slow The NSA’s Surveillance Activities

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILHELM According to an unnamed government officialspeaking with The Hill, shutting down the U.S. government wouldn’t lead to the National Security Agency (NSA) halting its controversial, and broad surveillance efforts. The United States may shut down in short order, due to political intransigence between the two chambers of Congress. Republicans want to defund the Affordable Care Act, while Senate Democrats and the president do not. It isn’t clear if there…

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Meet Hacking Team, the company that helps the police hack you

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As reported on The Verge. By Adrianne Jeffries Hacking Team may not have any clients in the US yet, but it’s not for lack of trying    In 2001, a pair of Italian programmers wrote a program called Ettercap, a “comprehensive suite for man-in-the-middle attacks” — in other words, a set of tools for eavesdropping, sniffing passwords, and remotely manipulating someone’s computer. Ettercap was free, open source, and quickly became the weapon of choice for analysts…

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Documents Reveal How the NSA Cracked the Kryptos Sculpture Years Before the CIA

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As reported on Wired. BY KIM ZETTER The Kryptos Sculpture. Photo: Wikimedia Commons   It took more than eight years for a CIA analyst and a California computer scientist to crack three of the four coded messages on the CIA’s famed Kryptos sculpture in the late ’90s. Little did either of them know that a small group of cryptanalysts inside the NSA had beat them to it, and deciphered the same three sections of Kryptos years earlier —…

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