Collaborate Disseminate
In the previous two HID articles, we talked about stealing HID descriptors, learned about a number of cool tools you can use for HID hacking on Linux, and created a …read more Continue reading Human-Interfacing Devices: HID over I2C
A new device designed to accurately and quickly sense whether a cardiac arrest patient also has a heart valve blockage that needs urgent treatment is now undergoing trials in Seattle.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: University of Washing… Continue reading New wrist sensor could save heart attack patients critical time in ER
Does anyone remember phone numbers anymore? Or have all these little bits of information you used to memorize moved onto digital devices such as smartphones? Some have argued this outsourcing of our memory is damaging our ability to remember anything p… Continue reading Outsourcing our memory to digital devices may actually be beneficial
As you probably know, Yamaha makes motorbikes and scooters, bikes and ebikes, audio gear and musical instruments, and more besides. The Corporation also has an in-house think tank where design ideas from across the company can be shared, and the latest… Continue reading Yamaha concepts bring tactile engagement to smartphone music
Jeff Bezos’s phone was hacked by Saudi Arabia last week, thanks to a video containing malicious code. While the situation was pretty specific—Jeff Bezos was targeted because assets through an attack that likely cost millions of dollars R… Continue reading Your Device is the Weakest Link
Threatpost’s Tom Spring sits down with Flashpoint and Akamai to discuss how the two companies worked together to address the 2016 Mirai DDoS attacks. Continue reading A Mirai Botnet Postscript: Lessons Learned
Microsoft’s latest update to their Intune cloud based management tool will now allow educational institutions easily manage shared computers.
Microsoft announced that one of the IT Pro related improvements in the upcoming Creators Update is improved device management.
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We all wring our hands over the security (or lack thereof!) of our myriad smart devices. If you haven’t had your home network hacked through your toaster, or baby cam, you’re missing out on the zeitgeist. But it doesn’t have to be this way — smart devices can be designed with security in mind, and [Chris Conlon] came to Pasadena to give us a talk on the basics.
He starts off the talk with three broad conceptual realms of data security: data in transit, data at rest on the device, and the firmware and how it’s updated. A common thread …read more
Facial expressions are not enough. Continue reading MIT’s New Device Uses Wireless Signals to Detect Emotions
