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AARP website hacked
2013-08-06 13:10:42| InfoWorld: Top News
AARP, formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons, has emailed its members, warning that the AARP website has been hacked.
Smart toilets bidet hacked via Bluetooth, gives new meaning to backdoor vulnerability
2013-08-05 16:57:47| Extremetech
Bestowing terrifying new definitions on the phrases "backdoor vulnerability" and "security hole," one of the world's most luxurious toilets has been exploited by hackers. The smart toilet is vulnerable via its built-in Bluetooth radio, allowing hackers to remotely open or close the lid, flush the toilet, or, perhaps most perturbingly, activate the built-in bidet function.
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Chromecast hacked: Its based on Google TV and Android, not Chrome OS
2013-07-29 16:23:47| Extremetech
Depending on a product's popularity, it's common practice nowadays for a new piece of hardware or software to get hacked almost instantly after release. Google released its cheap media streaming device, the Chromecast, less than one week ago, and it has already been hacked. The surprising part, though, isn't that it was hacked, but what was gleaned from from the process.
The humble SIM card has finally been hacked: Billions of phones at risk of data theft, premium rate scams
2013-07-22 14:53:02| Extremetech
It took a long time, but the humble SIM card that sits within your phone, and seven billion others, has finally been hacked. Of the seven billion modern SIM cards in circulation, hundreds of millions are estimated to be susceptible. The hacks allow a would-be attacker to infect your SIM with a virus that sends premium text messages, or records your phone calls -- and, in some cases, access the secure, sandboxed details stored on your SIM by mobile payment apps, giving a hacker access to your bank and credit card details. Now that a proof of concept has been demonstrated, we wouldn't be surprised if billions of other SIM cards are also vulnerable to other attack vectors.
Conspiracy of the week: Can your car be hacked while youre driving?
2013-07-10 15:10:22| Extremetech
If your car could be hacked, it would be very bad. A investigative journalist's death raises the possibility, at least with CNN.
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