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A group of experienced hackers called project Zero, Google's team of expert security researchers devoted a week to find as many serious security holes in Samsung's Galaxy S6 Edgeas they can. The team reported its findings to Samsung, which had already patched eight out of 11 of the flaws. The three unpatched issues are due to be fixed in November, and are not as severe as the rest. While most of these security holes were promptly fixed by Samsung, it's still worrisome that a dedicated team can find so many bugs in such a short timespan. Samsung's quickness in resolving most of them was promising. In August, Samsung and Google announced they would issue updates to their devices more frequently to address security issues.
A cyber security firm looking to better patrol wireless traffic has uncovered a flaw that could potentially allow hackers to attack and take over computers using a wireless mouse connection. Ben Gruber reports.
When cyber security professionals converged in Las Vegas last week to expose vulnerabilities and swap hacking techniques at Black Hat and Defcon, a consistent theme emerged: the internet is broken, and if we don’t do something soon, we risk permanent damage to our economy. In his Black Hat keynote speech, tech security guru Dan Kaminsky said, “Half of all Americans are backing away from the net due to fears regarding security and privacy." According to The Guardian, Kaminsky and other speakers said the global cybersecurity threat is made up of a combination of users' failure to back up data, users clicking on virus-laden links and downloading rogue files bursting with malware, and increasingly sophisticated cyber-criminals who use ransomware to turn ordinary people and companies into ATM's. Kaminsky called for a federal agency devoted to security issues, similar to the National Institutes of Health, that can “create engineering solutions to the real-world security problems that we have”. He said, "It can’t just be two guys. I need a pile of nerds to be able to work for on this 10 years. We can support health and energy and roads and cars, but somehow we can’t support the thing that is driving our economy right now? That’s crazy.”
Hackers steal screenplay of James Bond film "SPECTRE" as part of a cyberattack on Sony Pictures. Joel Flynn reports.
An experiment examining the vulnerabilities of computer features in a Chrysler jeep has shown how hackers can use the Internet to control the vehicle and even turn off the engine as it drives.
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