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Hackers Present Challenges For Driverless Car Initiatives
A red VW Golf jerks back and forth as it maneuvers into a parking space in the English spa town of Cheltenham. The halting efforts resemble those of a new driver, and in a sense they are -- just not ...
Passenger Jet Systems May Be Vulnerable to Hackers
Cybersecurity researcher Ruben Santamarta says he has figured out how to hack the satellite communications equipment on passenger jets through their WiFi and inflight entertainment systems—a claim ...
New Class of Hacker Attacks May Target USB Devices
USB devices such as mice, keyboards and thumb-drives can be used to hack into personal computers in a potential new class of attacks that evade all known security protections, a top computer ...
Senate Panel Approves Bill Protecting Firms Sharing Hacker-Threat Data
A Senate panel approved a bill that would give Bank of America Corp., Visa Inc. and other companies operating critical U.S. computer systems legal protections for sharing hacking threats with each ...
Hacking Remains Growth Industry as Thefts Reach $445B
Cybercrime remains a growth industry. That's the main message from former U.S. intelligence officials, who in a report Monday outlined scenarios for how $445 billion a year in trade theft due to ...
FBI Announces Massive Cyber Crime Bust; Takes Down Blackshades Malware
Law enforcement officials in more than a dozen countries arrested about 90 people in a U.S.-led crackdown on the makers and users of software designed to steal identities and remotely control ...
Tech and Medical Device Convergence Exposes New World of Risks
When the acclaimed television drama series "Homeland" climaxed with a devious plot by terrorists to kill America's vice president by hacking into his electronic pacemaker, critics mocked the ...
Growing Percentage of Spy Hacks Traced to Eastern Europe: Verizon Study
Hacking for espionage purposes is sharply increasing, with groups or national governments from Eastern Europe playing a growing role, according to one of the most comprehensive annual studies of ...