• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Aug-07-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on High-security electronic safes can be hacked through power and timing analysis

Some consumer safes protected with electronic locks are quite easy to hack using basic techniques. Others, though, like those made to store guns, are designed to resist expert manipulation.However, one hacker demonstrated at the DEF CON security conference Friday that […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Aug-06-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on A supercomputer is taking on humans in a hacking contest at DEF CON

Can a supercomputer beat humans in a hacking contest? We’re about to find out.For the first time, a fully automated supercomputer is trying to compete with humans in a major hacking contest, and so far the machine is hanging in […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Aug-06-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on A supercomputer is taking on humans in a hacking contest at DEF CON

Can a supercomputer beat humans in a hacking contest? We’re about to find out.For the first time, a fully automated supercomputer is trying to compete with humans in a major hacking contest, and so far the machine is hanging in […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Aug-06-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on This PC monitor hack can manipulate pixels for malicious effect

Don’t believe everything you see. It turns out even your computer monitor can be hacked.On Friday, researchers at DEF CON presented a way to manipulate the tiny pixels found on a computer display.Ang Cui and Jatin Kataria of Red Balloon Security […]