Cybersecurity

Friday Fun: What happens when you reply to spam email

Suspicious emails: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safe deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop up in our inboxes, and standard procedure is to delete on sight. But what happens when you reply? James Veitch: This is what happens when you reply to spam email | TED Talk | TED.com is a

Warning on SMS scams sent to Finnish phones

Many Finnish phones have received over the weekend and Monday a text message scam.Messages appear to be from the Croatian and Slovenian telephones, ie + + 385- and 386-numbers.  Did you get this text message? Remove it! I got the message and dis that. Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority Viestintävirasto has written a security note on

The Funniest Electronic Signs on the Open Road

As it turns out, hacked electronic road signs are actually a fairly easy prank to pull off, due to the fact that road workers rarely take the time to lock the boxes that the sign’s keyboards are connected to. This collection of already-hacked signs should be way more than enough to satisfy your funny road

Automated to Death – IEEE Spectrum

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/automated-to-death This article is an investigation to automation paradox. Automation is usually reliable, but when it fails due error or in unexpected situation, the results can disasterous.