United States Senate has passed a law legalizing space mining for private industry. The law “U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act” allows private companies to own resource they obtain from Outer Space.While it may be some time...

Crypto ransomware is the latest in the list of ransomware used by the hackers. This one, though, specifically targets users on Linux operating systems.What’s different about this ransomware is that instead of locking down Word or PDF files,...

At HackRead, we have been reporting on the dangers of Remote Access Trojan (RAT) which sits behind your OS, records and send the sessions to the attacker.One report that shock the readers was about the Canadian couple who had their laptop...

In 2011, Iran captured an American drone (unmanned aerial vehicle UAV) Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel and claimed that the drone was taken down by its cyber wing.Now, to avoid such incidents in the future, the Defense Advanced Research...

There have been many alarming pronouncements made by Stephen Hawking recently. Last year, he stated that our pace of evolution is too slow and may eventually be beaten by artificial intelligence. Spain’s El Pais, a well-known physicist,...

Ever wondered what would happen if you lose an encryption key that is used to gain access to highly valuable and sensitive data. The scenario would be devastating. In order to combat such disastrous events, engineers and researchers over at PARC,...

A campaign against electronic sex with Robots (CASR) has been launched in the UK on 15th Sep 2015.Dr Kathleen Richardson of CCSR (Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility) who is the campaign leader and also a robot ethicist at...

Reports suggest that the VxWorks Operating System that is installed in numerous devices including NASA’s Curiosity Rover contains Backdoor.(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});A Canadian security researcher has identified...

You Can Now Communicate Wirelessly Using Your Body’s Magnetic Fields --- Are you ready?A new path for wireless communication has been paved after a group of electrical engineers developed and demonstrated a new proof-of-concept that uses...

Recently, a new threat to modern day warfare was identified by the US military and government in the form of commercial drones equipped with chemical weapons and explosives. However, Boeing has finally come up with a solution to address this...