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Hackers Take Hijacked Jeep Cherokee for Joyride
2015-07-23 21:36:30| TechNewsWorld
White-hat hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek remotely took over a Jeep Cherokee, ran its controls, then cut the transmission as it sped at 70 mph along Interstate 64 in an experiment conducted with Wired. They turned on the air conditioning, switched radio channels, turned on the windshield wipers, activated the windshield washer fluid pump, and transmitted a photo of themselves.
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Anonymous may have hijacked thousands of routers for zombie botnet
2015-05-12 22:16:59| Extremetech
A new report from security firm Incapsula indicates malware authors have found a way to exploit tens of thousands of routers loaded with the same flawed firmware -- and there's some indication that Anonymous is pulling at least a few of the strings.
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Sprint, Windstream traffic routing errors hijacked other ISPs
2014-09-15 12:46:39| InfoWorld: Top News
Internet traffic routing errors made by U.S. operators Sprint and Windstream on the same day last week underscore a long-known Internet weakness, posing both security and reliability issues. Both of the errors involved Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), an aging but crucial protocol that is used by networking equipment to route traffic between different providers. Traffic routes are "announced" using BGP, and the changes are then taken up by routers around the world.
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American Who Hijacked Jet To Cuba Gets 20 Years
2014-07-17 22:34:36| Airlines - Topix.net
An American who returned from Cuba decades after hijacking a jetliner to the island, was sentenced to 20 years in U.S. prison on Thursday.
Staying safe in the outback: Australian iCloud users iPhones are being hijacked
2014-05-28 22:58:19| Extremetech
Earlier this week, a number of iCloud users in Australia found themselves locked out of their own iPhones, iPads, and Macs. This is incredibly worrisome news, but you can easily protect yourself with a few simple steps. Even if you've already been hit by this attack, all is not lost.
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