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Researchers reveal methods behind car hack at Defcon
2013-08-03 21:45:21| Wireless - Topix.net
Two security researchers at Defcon on Friday revealed the methods they used to hack into car computers and take over the steering, acceleration, breaks and other important functions.
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Researchers demo exploits that bypass Windows 8 Secure Boot
2013-08-02 14:00:19| InfoWorld: Top News
The Windows 8 Secure Boot mechanism can be bypassed on PCs from certain manufacturers because of oversights in how those vendors implemented the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification, according to a team of security researchers. The researchers Andrew Furtak, Oleksandr Bazhaniuk and Yuriy Bulygin demonstrated Wednesday at the Black Hat USA security conference in Las Vegas two attacks that bypassed Secure Boot in order to install a UEFI bootkit -- boot rootkit -- on affected computers.
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Researchers find warming climate can cause more violent behavior
2013-08-02 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: From road rage to riots, scientists say they now have clear evidence that rising temperatures lead to spikes in violence. In a study published yesterday in the journal Science, researchers crunched reams of data on conflict and climate from all over the world, dating from 10,000 B.C. to the present. They found "remarkably similar" behavioral changes showing that whether the subject is domestic violence in Australia, peasant rebellion in China or property crimes in the United States, blood seems...
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Researchers exploit cellular tech flaws to intercept phone calls
2013-08-01 23:38:07| InfoWorld: Top News
Researchers showed a Black Hat audience how femotcell technology, used by phone companies to boost cell phone coverage, can be hacked to intercept cell phone calls, text messages and other data. Tom Ritter and Doug DePerry , researchers from iSec Partners, used an femtocell from Verizon to demonstrate how hackers can eavesdrop on phone conversations and see text messages and photos sent or received by nearby cell phone users.
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UT Austin researchers successfully spoof yacht at sea with false GPS signals
2013-08-01 16:30:12| Green Car Congress
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