Hack

Astronomy

NASA just hacked a 1977 computer on a spacecraft way out past Pluto

We have to cut the 47-year-old space veteran some slack – it's faring much better than our 2019 laptops – but Voyager 1's five months of communicating nonsense to Earth may be over, thanks to Mission Control's 15-billion-mile remote IT fix.

The winner of the auction is unknown at this date

Infectious Diseases

Old laptop infected with the world's most dangerous malware sells for $1.34 million

What happens when the vastly different worlds of modern art and computer malware collide? The answer is an installation called The Persistence of Chaos, and it just sold at auction for US$1.345 million.

The recent large-scale malware attack may not have been ransomware after all, but actually a cyberattack in disguise

Infectious Diseases

Is the "NotPetya" ransomware a Russian cyberattack in disguise?

As Tuesday’s ransomware attack continues to spread, several security analysts are saying that this virus may not be ransomware after all, but is actually a cyberattack in disguise.

With the latest ransomware cyberattack disabling computers all over the globe we ask, how did this happen and what can be done to stop it in the future?

Infectious Diseases

Ransomware, Windows XP and the NSA leak that started it all

As a ransomware threat spreads around the world disrupting hospitals and corporations, the impact of governments hoarding software exploits and organizations running on old operating systems has never been more dramatic.

Rice University researchers use the heartbeat as a random signal generator to make medical implants more secure (Image: Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock)

Wellness and Healthy Living

Patients' own heartbeat could work as anti-hacking password for implants

Remotely hacking a pacemaker or insulin pump should be impossible, but sadly it isn't. It puts the millions of people who use wireless medical implants at risk. Researchers at Rice University believe they have a solution: a touch-based device that will use a person's own heartbeat as a password.

Using an off-the-shelf Emotiv BCI, researchers have shown that it's possible to "hack" a human brain

Medical Devices

Researchers demonstrate first backdoor "hack" into the human brain

Researchers have shown it's possible to pull information like addresses and bank details straight out of your head using readily available brain-computer interface technology.