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TheSoulfulEMU : Brain #hacking, it’s time... Brain hacking, it's time to protect our mind from hackers. Brain hacking refers the possibility to attack the human brain to extract sensitive information such as data and memories, including also the capability to inject new information.

Brain hacking, it's time to protect our mind from hackers

Exactly as any other computer computers, human brains may be vulnerable to hacking attacks, state of the art of technology already allow researchers to perceive changes in the magnetic field related to brain activity making possible reading of people’s thoughts. Neurotechnologist Philip Low is currently working to the designing of a portable brain monitor called iBrain that can detect the brain’s electrical activity from the surface of the scalp, individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or similar pathologies still have healthy brain activity and the iBrain could be used to control a mouse pointer on a computer screen. Recently researchers at the Usenix Security conference have demonstrated that exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the human brain is possible hack it. German Hackers Claim They Cracked iPhone Fingerprint Scanner. Today in international tech news: A group of German hackers says it has the keys to the iPhone's snazzy new fingerprint scanner.

German Hackers Claim They Cracked iPhone Fingerprint Scanner

Also: Edward Snowden's cache of documents suggests the UK was spying on Belgium; British Prime Minister David Cameron favorites a tweet he shouldn't have; China has been cyberstealing U.S. drone technology; and the Nairobi mall murderers take to Twitter. The Chaos Computing Club, a group of German hackers, claimed to have cracked Apple's new iPhone fingerprint scanner. The scanner is one of the distinguishing features of Apple's new iPhone 5S, which is otherwise quite similar to the iPhone 5.

CCC published a video on its website purportedly showing the group doing the deed: First 100 Pages of Aaron Swartz's Secret Servic... (36) Hacked, Time To Change Your Password. Privacy Monitor Hack Enables Complete Privacy When Browsing. I have to agree that when it comes to hacking your reality, lifehacks are the best way to optimize things.

Privacy Monitor Hack Enables Complete Privacy When Browsing

There are super simple lifehacks that will enable you to optimize tasks such as finding your new garbage bags easier and stuff like that. Then there are the more complex and advanced lifehacks that could possibly give you a little bit more privacy in this share-all world. Hacking Articles and Tools. Today I'm going to show you how to create an encrypted hidden container volume using Truecrypt.

Hacking Articles and Tools

What is a hidden volume? Lets say that you have some very sensitive files that is encrypted on your computer and someone (roommate, government, someone with a gun) wants to look at those files. However, you do not want to release those files but instead show them a different set of files that are similar (or fake). Webcams. Covering webcam a 'bandaid solution' Cautious users are covering their webcams for fear of computer hackers invading their privacy, but the real issue is the threat of malware says security expert Matthew Tett. 3, 2013 Many Australian and international IT security experts are using Post-it notes, electrical tape, Band-Aids and even cigarette papers to secure their computer web cameras from hackers.

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The phenomenon was discovered after security experts were asked a simple question that arose after publishing a story about unsuspecting victims who become "RATted" by hackers who use Remote Administration Tools, or "RATs", to spy on them. MPAA Lawyer’s Computer Account Used in Pirate Bay Founder Hacking Case. It's been revealed that one of the computer accounts used regularly by the alleged hackers in the ongoing Gottfrid Svartholm case belonged to Monique Wadsted, a lawyer who represented the entertainment companies in the original Pirate Bay trial.

MPAA Lawyer’s Computer Account Used in Pirate Bay Founder Hacking Case

Accounts including Wadsted's were allegedly manipulated to gain deeper access to IT systems. In the meantime, suspects say they are reluctant to speak for fear of Hells Angels reprisals. Pirate Bay Founder Denies Hacking Charges in Court. Appearing in court for a second week, Gottfrid Svartholm says he had no part in hacking Swedish IT company Logica.

Pirate Bay Founder Denies Hacking Charges in Court

The Pirate Bay founder denies being the person behind chat logs presented as evidence by the prosecution and maintains that other individuals who he doesn't want to name had access to his computers either physically or via remote access. Prosecutor Henrik Olin described the Swede's statements as "not credible. " Early April, prosecutor Henry Olin of the International Public Prosecution Office in Stockholm announced that Gottfrid Svartholm had been charged with several hacking related offenses including serious fraud, attempted aggravated fraud, and aiding attempted aggravated fraud. The charges relate to the hacking of Logica, a Swedish IT company working with local tax authorities. Much of the prosecution’s evidence was obtained from a computer seized from Gottfrid when he was detained last year in Cambodia. The case continues. What If China Hacks the NSA's Massive Data Trove?

The danger of creating data sets that would permit a foreign government or non-state actor to wreak havoc on Americans. Reuters Bradley Manning proved that massive amounts of the government's most secret data was vulnerable to being dumped on the open Internet. A single individual achieved that unprecedented leak. According to the Washington Post , "An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances.

" And this week, we learned that the FBI, CIA and NSA were unable to protect some of their most closely held secrets from Glenn Greenwald , Richard Engel , Robert Windrem , Barton Gellman, and Laura Poitras . In the wrong hands, it could enable blackmail on a massive scale, widespread manipulation of U.S. politics, industrial espionage against American businesses;,and other mischief I can't even imagine.

Do you trust the government to keep it secure, forever, if others try to look? If so, why? The Pirate Bay’s Gottfrid Learns of Hacking Charges via TV News. Last week Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm was charged with hacking into companies and a bank.

The Pirate Bay’s Gottfrid Learns of Hacking Charges via TV News

While it's no surprise that the news traveled quickly through the media, one might have expected that Gottfrid himself would be one of the first to hear the news. But Gottfrid's mother Kristina informs TorrentFreak that her son learned of the charges by watching TV news in his cell. Even today he still hasn't seen a copy of the lawsuit. Known online as Anakata, Gottfrid Svartholm is currently detained in a Swedish prison. He was deported from his home in Cambodia last year and has already served eight months of his copyright infringement sentence. But while his Pirate Bay-related imprisonment is almost over, it is looking increasingly likely that freedom could be some time off.