Android ransomware gets around auto-start restrictions by pretending to be a launcher

The latest Android.Lockscreen variants declare their activity as part of the launcher category to get around Android’s security restrictions.Read More Continue reading Android ransomware gets around auto-start restrictions by pretending to be a launcher

Android ransomware gets around auto-start restrictions by pretending to be a launcher

The latest Android.Lockscreen variants declare their activity as part of the launcher category to get around Android’s security restrictions.Read More Continue reading Android ransomware gets around auto-start restrictions by pretending to be a launcher

Shoot Hard Drive Platters Skywards On The Power Of Magnetism

Project Hathor is an electromagnetic ring launcher that launches aluminium hard drive platters 45 feet skywards at the touch of a button. The hard work is done by a bank of capacitors which are charged to 2kV from a microwave oven transformer, before being discharged into a coil of wire on which the hard drive platter is sitting. The resulting burst of magnetic field induces a huge current in the platter, and that current in turn creates an opposing field which launches the ring into the air.

The launcher is the work of [Krux], at the Syn Shop hackerspace in …read more

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