securityengineering
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Suspected Hackers Behind Spain’s Asylum Black Market Arrested
Police in Spain have arrested 69 people accused of using bots to circumvent the asylum system in the country. Spanish authorities said on Friday a gang had used the bots to obtain open time slots for the country’s online booking system, which is free, and resold the appointments to asylum seekers for 200 euros each.
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Hackers Take Control of Government-Owned Satellite in Alarming Experiment
Researchers said they could access an imaging satellite’s control interface, letting them manipulate its systems and introduce malicious code.
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Bugs in This Brand of ‘Smart’ Garage Doors Could Allow a Hacker to Open Them at Will
Newly published security research suggests that a certain brand of smart home devices have software vulnerabilities that could allow a savvy hacker to hijack them completely.
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Porn Hijacks U.S. Federal Reserve Zoom Conference
A Federal Reserve Zoom event was cancelled only moments after it was scheduled to start Thursday night following an outburst of pornographic images that took over the screen. The video conference was held by Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller, but he was unable to deliver his opening remarks as the images began to pop up…