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Hackers hijack a super yacht with simple GPS spoofing, and planes could be next
2013-07-29 15:26:50| Extremetech
With just a laptop, a small antenna, and a GPS "spoofing" device, the team fed a stronger signal to the yacht's steering system than the genuine one, incoming from actual GPS satellites.
W3C rejects ad industry attempt to hijack do-not-track specs
2013-07-16 18:02:40| InfoWorld: Top News
The World Wide Web Consortium has rejected an attempt by the advertising industry to hijack a specification describing how websites should respond to "do not track" requests sent by Web browsers. Suggestions from the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) would have allowed advertisers to continue profiling users who had asked not to be tracked. It would also have allowed them to "retarget" ads to those users by showing ads relevant to one site or transaction on all subsequent sites they visited, according to the co-chairs of the W3C's Tracking Protection Working Group.
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Remote Airplane Hijack Threat Demoed: Simon Says 'Crash!'
2013-04-11 23:53:00| TechNewsWorld
Airplanes can be hijacked using an Android smartphone, security consultant and trained commercial pilot Hugo Teso told an audience at a conference in Germany on Wednesday. Teso, who works for N.runs, created an exploit framework he calls "SIMON," and crafted an Android app he named "PlaneSploit" that delivers attack messages to an aircraft's flight management system.
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Twitter OAuth feature can be abused to hijack accounts, researcher says
2013-04-11 21:22:51| InfoWorld: Top News
A feature in the Twitter API (application programming interface) can be abused by attackers to launch credible social engineering attacks that would give them a high chance of hijacking user accounts, a mobile application developer revealed Wednesday at the Hack in the Box security conference in Amsterdam.
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Microsoft's latest patches squash potential USB hijack
2013-03-12 21:54:54| InfoWorld: Top News
As part of its monthly issue of software patches, Microsoft has fixed a Windows vulnerability that would have allowed someone to subvert a computer's security using only a USB thumb drive and some attack code. The vulnerability, MS13-027, is one of seven bulletins that Microsoft has issued for March's Patch Tuesday, a monthly release of bug fixes that Microsoft issues on the second Tuesday of each month.
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