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E-scooters can be hacked. Here’s what companies are doing about it.

sudshr47 December 13, 2018

It seems almost too easy to steal an electric scooter.

They’re light, only about 30 pounds, and usually aren’t locked to anything, so you can simply lift them and throw them in your car. As long as you don’t try to ride one while locked, the alarm shouldn’t go off. And a guide on a scooter forum recently spread on Twitter, showing people how a $32 kit from China could be used to rejigger a $500 scooter from Bird into your own personal vehicle.

So why don’t scooter companies seem worried?

The kit comes straight from China and takes ~8 weeks to arrive. Domestic sellers are selling them for slightly more expensive.

h/t to @TheRideshareGuy for finding the thread: https://t.co/fYu7LmLC9F pic.twitter.com/LpOWPh2wfU

— Nick Abouzeid (@nickabouzeid) December 4, 2018 Read more…

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Mozilla’s Firefox Monitor will now alert you when one of your accounts was hacked

sudshr47 September 25, 2018

Earlier this year, Mozilla announced Firefox Monitor, a service that tells you if your online accounts were hacked in a recent data breach. All you have to give it is your email address and it’ll use the Have I Been Pwned database to show you if you need to worry and what data was compromised. Today, […]

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Teen hacks Apple and stashes files in folder named ‘hacky hack hack’

sudshr47 August 16, 2018

Ah, teens.
Smart enough to hack into the most valuable company in the world, not smart enough to hide their stolen files anywhere other than a folder named “hacky hack hack.”
SEE ALSO: The 5 most obvious Apple references in Pixar films
A teena…

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Idaho inmates hacked prison-issued tablets for $225,000 in credits

sudshr47 July 27, 2018

Inmates in Idaho successfully hacked the software of the prison-issued tablets to issue themselves nearly a quarter of a million dollars in credits on the devices that are often one of their only connections to the outside world. The tablets, made by prominent prison vendor JPay, give inmates the ability to use email, listen to […]

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Healthcare data breach in Singapore affected 1.5M patients, targeted the prime minister

sudshr47 July 20, 2018

In what’s believed to be the biggest data breach in Singapore’s history, 1.5 million members of the country’s largest healthcare group have had their personal data compromised. The breach affected SingHealth, Singapore’s biggest network of healthcare facilities. Data obtained in the breach includes names, addresses, gender, race, date of birth and patients’ national identification numbers. […]

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A vacuum vulnerability could mean your Roomba knockoff is hoovering up surveillance

sudshr47 July 19, 2018

Yet again we are reminded that the mild conveniences of the smart home are all well and good, right up until someone decides to turn one of those Wi-Fi-connected things you invited in against you. But you probably didn’t think it was going to be the vacuum, did you? Two researchers with enterprise security company […]

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US Air Force drone documents found for sale on the dark web for $200

sudshr47 July 11, 2018

You never quite know what you’ll find on the dark web. In June, a threat intelligence team known as Insikt Group at security research firm Recorded Future discovered the sale of sensitive U.S. military information in the course of monitoring criminal activity on dark web marketplaces. Insikt explains that an English-speaking hacker purported to have […]

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An Overwatch hacker in South Korea just got sentenced to a year in prison

sudshr47 June 25, 2018

A 28-year-old man in South Korea faces a year in prison for hacking Overwatch . The sentence, reported by South Korea’s SBS News and Dot Esports, handed the hacker one year in prison and two years of probation for illicit activity related to the hit online multiplayer game. The particularly steep sentence is a result […]

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The damage from Atlanta’s huge cyberattack is even worse than the city first thought

sudshr47 June 7, 2018

More than two months after a cyberattack hobbled many of its critical municipal systems, the city of Atlanta is still sorting through the wreckage of what is likely the worst cyberattack targeting a U.S. city to date. On March 22, Atlanta’s connected systems city-wide were hit with a ransomware message locking their respective files and […]

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Ticketfly’s website is offline after a hacker got into its homepage and database

sudshr47 June 1, 2018

Following what it calls a “cyber incident,” the event ticket distributor Ticketfly took its homepage offline on Thursday morning. The company left this message on its website, which remains nonfunctional hours later: Following a series of recent issues with Ticketfly properties, we’ve determined that Ticketfly has been the target of a cyber incident. Out of an […]

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Flaw in global energy facility software shows critical infrastructure risks

sudshr47 May 3, 2018

Critical infrastructure worries in the U.S. and abroad are far from over. This week, security firm Tenable published research demonstrating a vulnerability affecting two software programs used by global energy management company Schneider Electric. The company’s systems are in place in facilities across North America, Western Europe and Asia. Before publishing its research, Tenable notified […]

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Equifax just reminded us that it’s still the goddamn worst

sudshr47 March 1, 2018

Equifax somehow still manages to surprise us.

The credit-reporting agency whose allegedly shoddy security practices allowed hackers to steal the personal information of potentially 143 million Americans is back in the news, and it’s not for anything good. In fact, it’s bad — like an additional 2.4 million Americans bad.

On the off chance that you had somehow managed to put the company’s mid-2017 case of likely catastrophic negligence behind you, the get-rich-or-fuck-you-over-trying folks are back to remind everyone just how much we hate them with the bombshell that even more people were hit by hack than originally reported. Read more…

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