Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days
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Hackers infect Android car head units with proxy botnet malware
A supply-chain attack targeting Android-based car head units is using a legitimate device-update app to spread malware that enlists compromised devices in a proxy botnet or uses them for ad fraud.
A journalist was banned from a Flock Safety convention, so they hacked it
A journalist wanted to go to a Flock Safety convention. Flock cancelled their registration AND got the hotel to cancel their room. Enter Benn Jordan and *some equipment*, 😉. I haven't had that much fun with a YouTube short in a while. https://youtube.com/shorts/GQoQkeMdvQM…
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DefCon 34 – Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]
40 years ago today, I tripped over a 75-cent accounting glitch in a Unix system. That tiny clue led to a year-long chase across networks, modem banks, and in...
Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]
40 years ago today, I tripped over a 75-cent accounting glitch in a Unix system. That tiny clue led to a year-long chase across networks, modem banks, and in...
Octopuses Hacked Their Ribosome to Become Smart
A fascinating aspect in evolutionary biology is that of convergent evolution — whereby similar structures and functions evolve independently from each other. The highly advanced nervous syste…
How French cyber spies hacked EncroChat phones
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Hackers poison arrayref Rust crate to push infostealer malware
Hackers compromised the maintainer account behind the widely used Rust crate arrayref to introduce malware that executed on developers
OpenAI's Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.
Show HN: Halmos.Science - Hacker News for math, the server checks the proofs
A community for mathematics where claims carry machine-checked status. Post a proof in Lean and the kernel rules on it.
Why Haven't the Voyager Spacecraft Ever Been Hacked?
The Voyager spacecraft accept radio signals from Earth and have zero onboard cryptographic authentication system. Why haven't they been hacked?