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Speakers.
Voting machines.
Elevator phones.
School software.
TVs
This is just some of the tech that hackers showed how to break into at this year's DefCon and Black Hat hacker conferences. Here's what they were able to do: 1/ wired.trib.al/SO9bbbM
Voting machines.
Elevator phones.
School software.
TVs
This is just some of the tech that hackers showed how to break into at this year's DefCon and Black Hat hacker conferences. Here's what they were able to do: 1/ wired.trib.al/SO9bbbM
Hacker Will Caruana spends his free time phreaking, a decades-old form of proto-hacking that explores the hidden features and bugs of the global telephone system. In his case, that means calling into elevator phone lines. 2/ wired.trib.al/yMaldks
Bad news for Boeing: One researcher was able to download Boeing's 787 code and found some serious security flaws. He says that exploiting them could be the first step in a multistage attack which could extended to systems like flight controls. 3/ wired.trib.al/p5NrdL3
This teen spent his afternoons hacking into companies like Blackboard and Follett, exposing vulnerabilities that gave him access to everything from student grades to immunization records. That doesn't look good for those companies. 4/ wired.trib.al/yeJ4eHW
Even your smart speakers can be hacked and weaponized. Hackers can take control of everyday speakers to launch aural barrages at high volume that can harm human hearing, or even have psychological effects. 5/ wired.trib.al/Hhx8nxC
One Tesla owner released code for modding a Model S to pull video from its autopilot cameras and extract license plates and faces. The "surveillance detection scout" is meant to warn if someone is following you. It also raises major privacy questions. 6/ wired.trib.al/VJM3RE3
Then, of course, there are voting machines. For years, hackers have come to DefCon to tear down voting machines and analyze them for vulnerabilities. This year there was a new target: a prototype created through Darpa, the government's mad science wing. 7/ wired.trib.al/T7RsrzD
Most of the components that a voter would interact with are still bare-bones prototypes that don’t provide much to hack. But Darpa plans to have a more complete system for attendees to assess at the 2020 village. Read more: 8/ wired.trib.al/T7RsrzD
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