Decoy Water System Catches Chinese Hackers Tom Simonite
"You would think that Comment Crew wouldn't come after a local water authority," Wilhoit told MIT Technology Review, but the group clearly didn't attack the honeypot by accident while seeking another target. "I actually watched the attacker interface …
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The living room makes a comeback, and it has technology to thank
The living room makes a comeback, and it has technology to thank. Ofcom says tablets and phones are bringing families together as viewers gather round TVs with handheld devices. Share · Tweet this. Email. Juliette Garside · The Guardian, Wednesday 31 …
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How Vice's Tim Pool used Google Glass to cover Istanbul protests
What is Google Glass good for, beyond showing off at technology conferences? Google's augmented eyewear has plenty of sceptics, but here's one scenario: "When there's a wall of police firing plastic bullets at you, and you're running through a wall of …
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Barnaby Jack remembered fondly at the Black Hat hackers convention
Friends said intellectual curiosity drove Jack to see if a villain could remotely hijack technology to steal, in the case of ATMs, or even kill, in the case of insulin pumps and pacemakers. He showed that a scene in which a terrorist kills a character …
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Moto X review: hands-on customization, hands-off use
Subscribe. Guardian iPhone · iPad edition · Kindle · Guardian Weekly · Digital edition · The Guardian home. The Guardian, Technology, User comments. News · US · World · Sports · Comment · Culture · Business · Money · Environment · Science · Travel …
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The Billion-Dollar Technology That May or May Not Prevent the Next Big Train …
The law's biggest measure was the mandatory implementation by intercity and commuter trains (as well as some large freight lines) of a billion-dollar technology called "positive train control." The promise of PTC, according to the legislation, was to …
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Book: What Technology Wants
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The purpose of technology is that it provides the opportunity to maximize human potential.
