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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. And one of the projects I worked for at a government agency was on electronic flight bags. The airline industry wrote it off as an unlikely scenario. And his work certainly made the evening news.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

But it was really fella named Kai and his friend doc and some other people from Colorado and the 719 area code they they were the first to anyone really remembers in those early single digit days of DEF CON to start challenges and workshop tables. Still very informal. And this was one year after the Jeep Cherokee remote hack.

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Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who’s Willing to Pay for It?

Krebs on Security

-based tech firm to secretly embed tiny computer chips into electronic devices purchased and used by almost 30 different companies. It also dominates the $1 billion market for boards used in special-purpose computers, from MRI machines to weapons systems. In a nutshell, the Bloomberg story claims that San Jose, Calif.