Collaborate Disseminate
Carmakers are going to have to get much better at securing their vehicles now that the researchers who demonstrated how to hack a Cherokee Jeep added their notes to the tools already online Continue reading How to hack a Jeep Cherokee – but don’t try this at home, kids
Third-party ‘guerilla’ patching can be a good example of the community stepping up to fix flaws – but it could also compromise security Continue reading What happens when a vendor doesn’t patch its software?
A flaw in the underlying design of the Internet could be very expensive for Bitcoin users, researchers find. Continue reading Internet routing weakness could cost Bitcoin users
What does ‘encrypting the whole internet mean’: can it be done and is it a good idea? Continue reading Priorities clash over the call to encrypt the whole internet
There are steps you can take to avoid ending up with a device that’s been compromised even before you’ve started up your new phone, but nothing can guarantee you’ll get a clean device Continue reading Pwned at the factory: attackers think outside the box
Schneider Electric held up its hands to the revelation that it was hardcoding passwords into its equipment, but the problem goes beyond one vendor Continue reading Hard-coded passwords put industrial systems at risk
Another big social network – this time, Twitter – has another new challenger, with some interesting features. But the history of the web is littered with the corpses of failed social media challengers Continue reading Mastodon: new beast to challenge Big Social, or another white elephant?
Owners of John Deere tractors are the latest group to discover that they can’t do their own repairs thanks to proprietary software that limits fixes to approved outlets – so what does that mean for security? Continue reading Farmers are digging into the dark web to unearth patches for their tractors
There’s a lot of promise in blockchain technology, but it’s bogged down in problems and has a long way to go before it’s ready for prime time Continue reading When will blockchain technology deliver on its promise?
Governments getting involved in cryptocurrencies is a tricky line to walk – so is China doing the right thing give its fraught history with Bitcoin users? Continue reading China mulls national cryptocurrency in race to digital money