Politicians appeal to hackers to take up the fight DEF CON Despite some progress, the US is still massively underprepared for a serious cyber attack and the current administration isn’t helping matters, according to politicians visiting the DEF CON hacking conference.… …read more Source:: Register

If you’re an Android user, you can now sign into some of Google’s services using your fingerprint, rather than having to type in a password. “The feature is available starting today for some Android phones, and it will be rolling out to all phones running Android 7 or later ‘over the next few days,’” reports…

“Never trust, always verify” is a solid security concept — but it’s important to realize that putting it into practice can be complex. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Or why My Chemical Romance broke up South Korea has retaliated against Japanese trade measures by removing the country from its white list of automatically approved export partners.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

What is this world coming to when a weather satellite that was designed for a two-year mission starts to fail 21 years after launch? I mean, really — where’s the pride these days? All kidding aside, it seems like NOAA-15, a satellite launched in 1998 to monitor surface temperatures and other meteorologic and climatologic parameters,…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Wall Street Journal: Auto makers for two decades have leaned on hybrid vehicles to help them comply with regulations on fuel consumption and give customers greener options in the showroom. Now, two of the world’s largest car manufacturers say they see no future for them in their…

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Faulty F-15s, at-risk airbases and much more DEF CON For the first time, Vegas’s annual DEF CON hacking conference has an “aviation hacking village”, and the US military is scouting around there for a few good hackers to find bugs that its own hackers have missed.… …read more Source:: Register