Wired
Hacks that cause physical destruction are so rare they can be counted on one hand. The infamous Stuxnet worm was the first, causing physical destruction of nuclear centrifuges in Iran in 2009. In 2014, Germany reported the second known case of physical destruction involving a furnace at a steel mill. Both of these attacks required extensive knowledge to pull off. But now a researcher has found an easy way for low-skilled hackers to cause physical damage remotely with a single action—and some of the devices his hack targets are readily accessible over the Internet.
A cyberattack kept the whole country's government offline for a month.
Before Apple patch, Wi-Fi packets could steal photos. No interaction needed. Over the air.
About 2,000 law enforcement agencies from all 50 states use mobile device forensic tools to extract every piece of data from smartphones.
