[Navic] wrote in to show us his latest project. This is a portable smart card reader with a nice LCD display. he just happened to have a Basic Stamp 2px, smart card reader, and smart card reader/writer sitting around waiting to be used. What better use than a hand held smart card reader? Tossing the …
RFID smart card reader
Facebook fixes bug, but ‘Nicole Santos’ hoax lives on
Company is removing posts containing malicious code from users’ pages, but the malware continues to spread when people click on the links. Already, the hoax has been memorialized on T-shirts and YouTube.
Security firm exploits Chrome zero-day to hack browser, escape sandbox
French security company Vupen said today that it’s figured out how to hack Google’s Chrome by sidestepping not only the browser’s built-in “sandbox” but also by evading Windows 7′s integrated anti-exploit technologies.
“The exploit … is one of the m…
Youtube is accused of silencing Anonymous
VIDEO SHARING WEBSITE Youtube has been accused of bringing down a hammer on any videos from the hacktivist group Anonymous, although the Google subsidiary said it was unable to say whether the group has been targeted individually.
Anonymous has recent…
Retrode gets an upgrade
We’ve been following the Retrode since it was an obscure video on YouTube that we swore was an elaborate hoax. Now, [Matthias] tell us it’s getting its third major upgrade, and it is really starting to resemble a commercial project. The video features the new prototype case for the Retrode II, which has been 3d printed. The …
Fatal Flash Flaw Fixed Finally
So, you may have heard that Adobe has provided an updated Flash player, possibly when you went to catch the latest cute baby video on that YouTube knockoff your coworker insists on using and had to sit through five minutes or so of downloading, grumbli…
Sony to Get George Hotz’s PayPal Records
A federal magistrate said Sony may subpoena the PayPal account of PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz, as the game maker ratchets up its civil lawsuit against the man who released the first full-fledged PS3 jailbreak in the console’s 4-year history…
Commandeering public video screens: real or fake?
It’s time for everyone’s favorite comment thread game: Real or Fake? This week’s edition comes in from a tip that [Phil] sent about a way to take over video screens in Times Square. Watch the video after the break to see the hackers using a two-part solution to rebroadcast video from an iPhone onto a …
Hackerspace camera rig auto-alerts the Internets when projects are finished
It seems like every hackerspace has their own means of communicating status messages to their members. The hackers at [MetaLab] in Vienna have put together a rather novel way (Google translation) of letting the world know they have completed a project. While some hackerspaces simply notify their members that they are open for business, this …
