Hours after Apple on Tuesday pleaded with lawmakers to help resolve the tech giant’s growing showdown with the U.S. government, Apple formally objected to a federal judge’s order telling the company to help FBI agents hack into an iPhone left behind by one …
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A security researcher used a homemade $ 60 system to outsmart self-driving car lidar sensors that cost thousands; he was able to trick an autonomous vehicle into slowing down and even launched a denial of service attack on a self-driving car’s tracking system so that it came to a complete stop.
Lidar, a remote sensing technology, is most commonly known as the circular “eye” mounted on the roof of most self-driving cars; it acts somewhat like radar as the lasers spin around to scan the area and detect objects. Lidar devices come in various sizes and prices. The lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) market is estimated to be a one billion market by 2020; it’s not used exclusively for driverless cars as seen in recent news about autonomous golf carts and surveying drones. Yet Jonathan Petit, a principal scientist at Security Innovation, believes lidar sensors are “the most susceptible technologies” in self-driving vehicles.
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While people ponder why Microsoft’s Nokia bid is either great or terrible for the company’s future, Mashable pointed to five Nokia patents that Microsoft should pursue to “get creative with future Nokia phones and bring some real innovation back to the mobile marketplace.” The shape-shifting phone and kinetic energy harvester to let motion keep the battery charged are cool, but Microsoft has had plenty…
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While not everyone considers mass surveillance to be Satan, signing online does not automatically forfeit your right to value your privacy. In fact, it’s sickening when alleged ‘white hats’ wear black hats to exploit users in the name of surveillance for security. If a hacker were to engage in net or cell phone surveillance, or breach email, then law enforcement would call that illegal and go on the…
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