Collaborate Disseminate
Chain-style bike locks are nice because they’re flexible, although they’re kinda limp – like a piece of boiled spaghetti. The Abus Goose Lock 6206K is different, in that it’s bendy but it holds its shape – more like a giant pipe cleaner.Continue Readin… Continue reading Malleable Abus Goose bike lock is firm yet flexible
While there are now a ton of high-tech bike headlights on the market, most of them are pretty similar to one another. The Guard X stands out, however, with features like an anti-theft alarm, changeable light colors, and a maximum output of 4,000 lumens… Continue reading 4,000-lumen Guard X bike light changes colors and thwarts thieves
Most of us probably have a vision of how “The Robots” will eventually rise up and deal humanity out of the game. We’ve all seen that movie, of course, and …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 10, 2023
PTI reports: A laptop containing confidential information was allegedly stolen from the offices of a private hospital’s blood bank, police here said on Tuesday. According to a complaint filed by Dr Sangeeta Agarwal, head of blood bank at the Fortis Mem… Continue reading Laptop containing confidential data stolen from blood bank of Gurugram hospital
Remember that time when the entire physics community dropped what it was doing to replicate the extraordinary claim that a room-temperature semiconductor had been discovered? We sure do, and if …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: August 13, 2023
There’s an update to the case involving the arrest of a married couple charged with laundering $4.5 billion in cryptocurrency stolen from Bitifinex in 2016. Ilya Lichtenstein, 35, and Heather Morgan, 33, from New York City pleaded guilty today to… Continue reading Husband and Wife Plead Guilty to Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving the Hack and Theft of Billions in Cryptocurrency
While there are now a number of smart electronic bike locks on the market, almost all of them are rigid U-locks. The Lasso is different, in that it’s a flexible chain lock … but it can still do the usual things like wirelessly unlocking, sounding a the… Continue reading Linka’s Lasso gives chain locks the “smart” treatment
While there’s no substitute for a big, burly, ultra-secure bike lock in high-theft-risk scenarios, sometimes a lighter, more compact lock is a bit more practical. That’s where the Abus CombiFlex TravelGuard is designed to come in.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading Abus CombiFlex TravelGuard bike lock is set to hit your local coffee shop
Thieves cut through the wall of a coffee shop to get to an Apple store, bypassing the alarms in the process.
I wrote about this kind of thing in 2000, in Secrets and Lies (page 318):
My favorite example is a band of California art thieves that would break into people’s houses by cutting a hole in their walls with a chainsaw. The attacker completely bypassed the threat model of the defender. The countermeasures that the homeowner put in place were door and window alarms; they didn’t make a difference to this attack.
The article says they took half a million dollars worth of iPhones. I don’t understand iPhone device security, but don’t they have a system of denying stolen phones access to the network?…
Car thieves are injecting malicious software into a car’s network through wires in the headlights (or taillights) that fool the car into believing that the electronic key is nearby.
News articles.
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