The internet of hackable things

Tech

Internet of Things Teddy Bear Leaked 2 Million Parent and Kids Message Recordings

02.27.17

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

Police Have Arrested a Suspect in a Massive ‘Internet of Things’ Attack

02.23.17

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Raheem Beyah (left), associate chair in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and David Formby (right), a Georgia Tech Ph.D. student.

Tech

A New Type of Malware Can Lock Power Plant Computers For Ransom

02.14.17

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Entertainment

How Scared Should I Be of the Internet of Things?

01.04.17

By Mike Pearl
Tech

Internet of Things Hackers Target Anti-Spam Service—And Fails To Take It Down

12.14.16

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

Wannabe Hackers Are Willing to Pay To Learn How To Use the Mirai Botnet

12.13.16

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

Hacker Claims To Push Malicious Firmware Update to 3.2 Million Home Routers

12.06.16

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

It’s Trivially Easy to Watch Porn On a Restricted Tablet Made For Kids

12.05.16

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

Hackers Say Knocking Thousands of Brits Offline Was an Accident

12.02.16

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

Two Hackers Appear To Have Created a New Massive Internet of Things Botnet

11.29.16

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

Congress To Security Experts: How Do We Deal With The Internet of Shit?

11.16.16

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Tech

The Looming Disaster of the Internet of (Hackable) Things

11.07.16

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

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NASA’s Solar Probe Just Flew Closer to the Sun Than Any Spacecraft in History

“Just a total ‘Yay! We did it!’ moment.”

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Food

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Gaming

Xbox Indie Game Demo Event: ‘Section 13’ and ‘Arctic Awakening’

The Xbox Indie Game Demo Event is here through the end of December. ‘Section 13’ and ‘Arctic Awakening’ look like two gems in the bunch.

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By Anthony Franklin II
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Life

We Need to Try a Little Harder to Keep Our Pets Away From Our Cocaine

And it’s not just cocaine.

12.26.24

By Luis Prada
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Tech

If You Don’t Back Up Your Files, You’re Living an Inch From Disaster

Back, back, back it up, and you’ll never get to feeling low from losing all your precious files and photographs.

12.26.24

By Matt Jancer