All the stories tagged with: hack
Military-inspired camera launcher offers better look at surroundings
08/10/2011, It is not everyday that we get military-class devices hitting the market for us civilians, but sometimes, military hardware can be an inspiration for civilian law enforcement equipment. Check out this DIY launchable camera which was part of the show [...]
Researchers manage to hack mobile data communications
08/10/2011, Researchers are rather stoked to show off their skills and technical know-how in breaking the encryption which was actually put in place to protect information sent over the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS). GPRS is the standard which is commonly [...]
Brainwave Disruptor entrainment device built from scratch
08/08/2011, Rich Decibels (this is just a handle of a real person) has a healthy interest in the subject and science of brainwave entrainment, and decided that there is no better way to learn more about it than to built such [...]
Zero-day flaw in games discovered by 10-year old
08/08/2011, You are never too young to hack – and that applies to CyFi, the handle for a 10-year-old hacker who graced DefCon 19 by revealing a zero-day exploit in games which are available on both iOS and Android-powered devices, and [...]
Washing machine gets smarter with DIY tinkering
08/08/2011, You know how everything strives to be smarter and smarter these days? Well, our regular home appliances are the same – moving in the general direction of the smartphone industry, although I would go out on a limb and say [...]
Hackers break into thousands of company computer networks
08/04/2011, Security experts could be part of what they deem to be the largest coordinated attack launched to date by hackers, and to make matters more grave, this has been happening for at least five years – where said hackers have [...]
USB-powered Illuminator recycles household trash
08/02/2011, If you are a DIY enthusiast, then chances are you might fall in love with this USB-powered Illuminator that does come in handy whenever you are in a tight spot, and in a jiffy, of course. For folks who have [...]
Hack turns your iPhone 4 into an NFC capable device
08/01/2011, With Google rooting for NFC to be a standard to be used as payment services in the US, what with the launch of Google Wallet, it seems that certain Android devices (along with upcoming Blackberry devices) will be able to [...]
Spy drone cracks Wi-Fi networks and cell data
08/01/2011, Who would have thought that with some technical know how and an interest in DIY projects, this particular duo of an airplane hobby shop owners as well as an ex-Air Force official managed to conjure a flying drone which is [...]
LulzSec spokesperson Topiary arrested (Update)
07/28/2011, Update: The police might have been tricked into apprehending the wrong person – it seems that website LulzSecurityExposed claims Topiary is a 23-year-old Swede. The UK authorities did not comment on the situation as to whether they bagged the right [...]
DIY Segway costs just €300
07/26/2011, Watched Mall Cop and loved every single minute of it? Well, getting around on Segways in a large mall makes perfect sense since such buildings are massive, especially for those suffering from joint pains. Well, purchasing a Segway outright might [...]
Apple MacBook batteries hacked to burn or explode
07/25/2011, We know that computers can be broken into by hackers for malicious purposes, but who would’ve thought that laptop batteries could be broken into as well? At the Black Hat security conference next month in Las Vegas, a security researcher [...]
Space Invaders get sized down, could be smallest in the world
07/07/2011, For those of you who grew up in the 1980s and frequented arcades that had all these large machines, asking you to feed them quarter after quarter while you master the nuances of the game itself, this is one DIY [...]
