Collaborate Disseminate
It’s low tech, but effective.
Why Germany? It has more ATMs than other European countries, and—if I read the article right—they have more money in them.
Continue reading Criminals Are Blowing up ATMs in Germany
A lost, stolen, or compromised smartphone today means we are in serious trouble. Most people have everything related to their personal and professional lives stored on their phones, a fact that criminals are well aware of. Cybersecurity risks resulting… Continue reading What to do if your iPhone or Android smartphone gets stolen?
We’ve been harping a lot lately about the effort by carmakers to kill off AM radio, ostensibly because making EVs that don’t emit enough electromagnetic interference to swamp broadcast signals …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 9, 2024
Cianan Brennan reports: The Data Protection Commission has opened an investigation into the HSE after the personal files of patients were “compromised”. Questions have been raised about “unsuitable locations” in which that data was stored. A spokespers… Continue reading Data protection commissioners ‘want to look wider’ into patient file breach
Battlelines are being drawn in Canada over the lowly Flipper Zero, a device seen by some as an existential threat to motor vehicle owners across the Great White North. The …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 31, 2024
The Government of Yukon is reporting a break-in that occurred at the Whitehorse Victim Services office sometime between the evening of March 15 and the morning of March 16, 2024. The Whitehorse detachment of RCMP “M” Division is investigating the break… Continue reading Public notice of break-in at Whitehorse Victim Services office
The arms race continues, as burglars are learning how to use jammers to disable Wi-Fi security cameras.
Continue reading Burglars Using Wi-Fi Jammers to Disable Security Cameras
Apple’s Vision Pro augmented reality goggles made a big splash in the news this week, and try as we might to resist the urge to dunk on them, early adopters …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 11, 2024
A financially motivated threat actor tracked as UNC4990 is using booby-trapped USB storage devices and malicious payloads hosted on popular websites such as Ars Technica, Vimeo, GitHub and GitLab to surreptitiously deliver malware. Another interesting … Continue reading Threat actor used Vimeo, Ars Technica to serve second-stage malware
A 61-year-old man alleges that a facial recognition algorithm used a mugshot from the 1980s to ID him in a crime he didn’t commit. Continue reading Man Jailed, Raped, and Beaten After False Facial Recognition Match, $10M Lawsuit Alleges