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Last night's Person of Interest, "Root Cause," was a number-of-the-week tale of political intrigue and 1337 haX0r drama. And you know we can't resist 1337 haXORz. That's why we're raising our scotch glasses to Root, a hacker with good taste in nailpolish and a fiendish interest in getting Finch stuck in her honeypot. More »
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On November 22, 1987, Chicago-area Doctor Who fans experienced a crossover with Max Headroom that would go down in the history books. The only problem? Neither show had signed up for this clash of universes, and Max ended up getting his naked ass smacked on a PBS station. More »
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A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America's Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots' every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones. More »
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Last Thursday, Trinity College recruited an unexpected new professor for their English department: a one Dr. Conan T. Barbarian. Sadly, this was the work of rascals at the university and not one of Thulsa Doom's unusually stupid spells. More »
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A new ATM for a Russian bank turns money machines into truth machines, using fingerprint recognition, 3-D face scans and voice analysis to determine whether customers are worthy of applying for credit cards. More »
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We all know how computer hackers flex their 1337 skills in movies: by flailing on a keyboard like it was a bongo and yelling whatever snippets of jargon pop into the actors' heads (i.e. "USB! Byte! Floppy! 56K!"). More »
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The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is shooting down a key legislative talking point: that the internet "kill-switch" legislation is needed to prevent cyberterrorists from opening the Hoover Dam's floodgates. More »
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2000 A.D., aka Gong Yuan, is one of the all-time great hacker movies of all time, featuring a great scene where a super-elite cyberwarfare program crashes the Stock Exchange by deleting Windows folders. Which is then followed by awesome kung-fu. More »
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An anonymous hacker wearing a Guy Fawkes mask took over classroom projection screens at Washington State University on the fifth of November, to broadcast a prerecorded message adapted from V For Vendetta. More »
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Cyber-terrorists have already compromised the U.S. military's computers and caused blackouts in Brazil, according to tonight's 60 Minutes. Better stock up on canned goods and flashlight batteries for the next big cyber-attack! More »
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How can you tell the difference between a real report about online vulnerabilities and someone who's trying to scare you about the security of the internet because they have an agenda, such as landing lucrative, secret contracts from the government? More »
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Doesn't this plate of sliced hard drive look delicious? It was created in less than a minute by a refrigerator-sized machine that can slice hard drives up like bread, using 19.8 tons of pressure. Want to see it in action? More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5337684&view=rss&microfeed=true The Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers Of America website was hacked by someone who installed malicious code into its pages. When anyone visited the SFWA site, it would try to launch a Trojan against your browser — which mostly affected older browsers and unpatched machines. The attack was aimed at gaining users' bank-account details and other personal information. SFWA says it's removed the malicious code from its site now. [SF Crows Nest] More »
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If you're in NYC this weekend, don't forget to stop by the awesome hacker and media jammer conference HOPE, being held for the last time this year in Hotel Pennsylvania. Hack-a-Day is there, covering a bunch of stuff including the cold boot attack toolkit and Adafruit's latest confection, a SIM card reader for all your snooping, erm I mean data recovery, needs. This is one of the very best hacker conferences in the United States, and this may be its last year. So if you like disrupting the status quo using technology and science, you should stop by. [The Last HOPE] More »
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Back in the old days of text files and BBSes — days that hopefully you don't remember, kids — we used to do things like trade warez and pr0n cuz we were 1337 haXOrz man. No really, we were. But the people who were the true hackers of the 1980s and 90s were the people like Emmanuel Goldstein, who ran the underground techno-anarchist zine 2600 for curious, technically-minded people who wanted to learn about things such as tweaking the phone system or lock-picking or social engineering. Articles in 2600 became the stuff of legends, and influenced (for better or worse) movies like Sneakers and Hackers. Now the first-ever collection of these influential early hacker essays is coming out, just in time for the last-ever Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference in NYC. More »
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Things you will have to forget in order to enjoy War Games: The Dead Code: The fact that it's supposed to be a direct-to-DVD sequel to War Games, the decent 1980s hacker-almost-starts-WWIII epic. The fact that even Homeland Security might be aware that "online gamers" and "terrorists" are probably mutually exclusive groups. And the fact that MGM tried to sue the rightful owner of WarGames.com in preparation for this release. Click through for the awful details. More »
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There are a zillion near-future scifi flicks that have hackers in them doing highly technical things like "hacking the planet" or "bringing down the whole system." When filmmakers don't want to sound like total idiots, however, they call a real hacker to consult — a hacker like Fyodor, whose real-life software tool "nmap" was used by uber-hacker Trinity in The Matrix and shows up in a Bourne Identity cameo. Fyodor also consulted on the hacking scenes in Live Free or Die Hard (he's not convinced his input made the movie any more realistic). Though he thinks The Matrix is the best scifi hacking movie out there, Fyodor has a surprising pick for "good geek porn" in a hacker movie. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338384&view=rss&microfeed=true Mara dies in a fire while inside a virtual reality program she wrote called "Dreamworlds." After her death, she discovers that God is a hot computer program who wants Mara to heal the world — with VR sex. Thus begins Cyberella: Forbidden Passions, the weirdest scifi story ever used as an excuse for some R-rated sexy action [clip is work-safe]. More »
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