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DHS cyber director warns of surge in Iranian “wiper” hack attacks
With tensions between the US and Iran on the rise following the downing of a US military drone last week, the …
German regulator says it discovered new illegal software on Daimler diesels
Enlarge / (Photo by TF-Images/TF-Images via Getty Images) (credit: getty images)
Over the weekend, Germany’s auto regulator told Daimler that it would have to recall 42,000 Mercedes-Benz diesel vehicles after the group discovered illegal software on the cars that would
The Raspberry Pi 4 launch site runs on a Pi 4 cluster
The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B has launched. It’s a pretty big upgrade from the Raspberry Pi 3, with the company claiming that the device can …
Claims of Tesla hack wide of the mark—we dig into GNSS hacking
On Wednesday of this week, an Israeli firm called Regulus Cyber issued a press release stating that “spoofing attacks on the Tesla GNSS (GPS) receiver could easily be carried out wirelessly and remotely.” In the firm’s demonstration attack on a
Argentina’s blackout and the storm-battered future of the grid
Early Sunday morning, all of mainland Argentina lost power in an “unprecedented” blackout event that left most of the country’s 44 million citizens in the dark until the …
A tale of two cities: Why ransomware will just get worse
Earlier this week, the city of Riviera …
Manufacturing memory means scribing silicon in a sea of sensors
At Micron’s memory chip fabrication facility in the Washington, DC, suburb of Manassas, Virginia, the entire manufacturing area is …
At House hearing, witnesses for Trump admin defend fuel-economy rollback
Enlarge / Cars and trucks drive along Interstate 75/85 June 25, 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia. (credit: Erik S. Lesser/Getty Images)
The Trump administration has been trying to roll back Obama-era fuel-economy standards for passenger vehicles out to model year
Potent Firefox 0-day used to install undetected backdoors on Macs
Hackers exploited a pair of potent zero-day vulnerabilities in Firefox to infect Mac users with a largely undetected backdoor, according to accounts pieced together from …