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Those remote key fobs nearly all automakers offer -- turns out they're fairly easy to hack so the bad guys can unlock your car and high-tail it before you even finish your shopping. Your only advantage: If your car has a remote that still requires a key, the bad guys can't start it easily, even though they can open the doors and trunk and get inside. Cars that have keyless entry and the push-button ignition switches becoming more common are in the most jeopardy. The thieves can, in fact, start those vehicles because the same purloined signal that opens the doors also tells the push-button system it's OK to start the car when somebody pushes the button. The setup for hacking is easy, but not simple. It requires a couple of special antenna and a certain proximity to the victim, the Swiss researchers found. The research company, ETH Zürich, hacked into eight automakers' remote-entry systems. No coding system could stop it, the researchers said.

Christopher Baker spent Boxing Day as a VJ – video jockey – for a warehouse party in Liverpool. Among the items being used was a Microsoft Kinect controller, normally used to play Xbox 360 games such as Kinectimals or Kinect Sports. But Baker wasn't playing games: the system was rigged up to a computer running software to interpret the movement data being gathered by the system. The software Baker had written monitored how the clubbers were moving and used that to affect the sound, creating a feedback loop between dancers and sound. "It was popular with the clubbers because they could interact directly with the sound and were immersed in the experience," he says. Baker, who works at Apposing, a mobile app development company based in Liverpool, is one among hundreds of people who have embraced the Kinect not for its potential in gaming (though that is substantial), but because, unusually for an Xbox accessory, its outputs can be put to different – and in some cases revo...

UK premier supplier of iPhone and iPod touch accessories website Got Hacked by KillerMind HaXor !  Link :  http://www.iphonebits.co.uk/ Mirrors :  http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/12911520 http://mirror-az.com/mirror/?id=9382 News Source :  KillerMind HaXor

A group of hackers, claiming to be from Kashmir, on Thursday night hacked a website dedicated to the Bollywood superstar, Amitabh Bacchan. The group calling itself ‘Cyber Stone Pelters Force or Cyber Sangbaaz Force’ hacked www. amitabhbachchanonline.com last night and posted pro-independence, anti-India, anti-Israel and anti-United States content on the home page. The hackers have also uploaded a song of Roushan Illahi, popularly known as MC Kash, a Kashmir youth who created ripples on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter with his track "I protest ", which deals with the death of over 113 people, mainly teenagers in government forces’ action during pro-freedom demonstrations last summer. “Hello Mr admin, you got owned by Cyber Sangbaaz Force, Cyber Stone pelters Force from Indian Occupied Kashmir,” reads the introductory message on the website. Slogans like “Down with America,” “Down with Israel,” “Down with India,” “Free Palestine,” “Free Kashmir,” “Go India Go ...

Excuse me for typing breathlessly, faithful Naked Security reader, but I have some incredible news to share. I have just been informed that I have won three million Euros from none other than the Bill Gates Foundation! I had no idea that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which normally fights poverty around the world and promotes healthcare, even ran a lottery - let alone that I had entered. But clearly, I did and now one of their representatives has been in touch to tell me the good news. Bill and Melinda Gates are renowned around the world for their incredible generosity - they're not only planning to give millions away to me, but they're also happy to employ staff who spells the boss's surname incorrectly. It's great that Bill and Melinda are not adverse to employing people with literacy problems. Counting isn't this emailer's strong point either. He's managed to attach a grand total of 69 files to this email telling me about my windfall. Eventually...