Broadly speaking, you can say that hackers attempt to break into computers and networks for any of four reasons.There’s criminal financial gain, meaning the theft of credit card numbers or defrauding banking systems. Next, gaining street cred and burnishing one’s reputation within hacker ...
Since qubits may be a one and a zero, quantum computers’ processing speeds far outpace the competition. Cybersecurity experts are worried they will make modern ciphers — meaning encryption algorithms — useless, which has inspired exfiltration-driven cyberattacks. Encryption turns data, also know...
Life isn't an expression; how could it have meaning? But it can have a quality that feels a lot like meaning. In a project like a compiler, you have to solve a lot of problems, but the problems all fall into a pattern, as in a signal. Whereas when the problems you have to ...
An electrical system was also rolled out to power the computers, robots, telex machines, drones, LEDs, 3D printers, soldering irons, and the sauna of the Finnish hackers. In addition there was an alt-power field running on sustainable energy. That was an experiment intended to pave the way...
Your router has easy-to-break security due to either weak or, even worse, default administrative password—meaning you kept the password your router came with and never bothered to update it. To seasoned hackers, that’s along the lines of using the word “password” as a password. According...
This one, while it seems scary, is less likely to happen due to the circumstances of how the hacker accesses the router. Ideally, the hacker will need to be in Wi-Fi range of your router, meaning they have to be pretty close.
Journalists expropriated the name “Hacker” and turned it into a bad word. Real journalists don’t create stories, they report them, using information other people generated as long as they are nicely presented in a form the journo can access and at least comprehend the surface meaning of....
understanding innovation, as activity and aspiration, the author squanders an opportunity to clarify the relationship between the imperatives of digital electronics and the various ways in which cultures and personalities construct and reconstruct their computers and computer networks in pursuit of human ...
In all, researchers had identified four vulnerabilities and classified them as critical, meaning hackers can use them unseen to steal emails and other data. But on Feb. 26, before the software giant released its patches, attackers began infiltrating those email systems en masse—almost as though ...
The discovery has been detailed by researcher Alex Ivanovs, who wrote about the bug in a blog post. Right now, it seems to affect almost all of the best web browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Brave. WebP images are used all over the web, meaning huge numbers of sites and...