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Jailbreak bug in John Deere tractors drives right-to-repair wave

Jailbreak bug in John Deere tractors drives right-to-repair wave

A hacker managed to jailbreak John Deere's software and hijack its vehicles by bypassing digital security locks. John Deere is an agricultural vehicle manufacturing company that produces tractors, among others. A new jailbreak allows hackers to bypass digital security locks enforced by tractor m... Read more

date2 years ago
Hundreds of AWS backups leak sensitive data

Hundreds of AWS backups leak sensitive data

Various companies, start-ups and governments are leaking their own files from the cloud. This is shown by new research presented at Def Con. The problem lies in the Elastic Block Storage snapshots by AWS. The Elastic Block Storage (EBS) snapshots are, according to Ben Morris, a security analyst at B... Read more

date5 years ago