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April 24, 2015
Friday Fun Blog: To-Do List Edition
May 1, 2015
It’s that time again for everyone’s favorite cybersecurity-focused link dump—This Week in Getting Hacked! Buckle up folks, because that self-driving car you bought is about to get crashed by some dude controlling it from his parents basement.
On to the links!
-Remember back in the early days of the Internet, you’d get that lovely spam message from a Nigerian prince looking to regain his title or something and all he needed was your bank account and routing number, social security number, and naming rights to your first born? Well, his plan has been like 20-some years in the making, but that Nigerian prince finally got around to taking that money—and got caught. A Nigerian man was arrested after attempting to hack into a bank and steal $340 million. Maybe he can send you an email from jail asking you to pay for his bail?
-Tesla makes some fantastic electric vehicles, and now they want to make them even better by having people hack into them. At the Defcon convention in Vegas later this year, Tesla will allow hackers from around the world to tinker with their vehicles and find any bugs or whatever else might eventually lead to someone driving your car while you’re in it.
-Another day, another DDoS attack. This time, hackers said ‘Aloha’ to the State of Hawaii’s website by knocking it down for a few hours. Hackers also got to Thirty Meter Telescope, a project to build a thirty meter telescope to explore space. Okay, hackers have crossed the line! You can attack Hawaii’s website all you want, but the second you mess with space THIS WRITER gets heated. Don’t you dare attack space!
-Facebook is being attacked by the lovely Chinese government’s Great Firewall, redirecting any sites that use Facebook’s login script to the sites of an open-source software project and a travel blog. Nobody is really sure why it’s sending users to those two sites–maybe China’s Great Firewall is trying to tell you something? Like, learn software code and then leave China.
See you next week!
