Breaking the iris scanner locking Samsung’s Galaxy S8 is laughably easy
Enlarge (credit: Chaos Computer Club) Hackers have broken the iris-based authentication in Samsung’s Galaxy S8 smartphone in an easy-to-execute attack that’s at odds with the manufacturer’s claim that the mechanism is “one of the safest ways to keep your phone locked.” The cost of the hack is less than the $725 price for an unlocked Galaxy S8 phone, hackers with the Chaos Computer Club in Germany said...
Examining the FCC claim that DDoS attacks hit net neutrality comment system
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Valery Brozhinsky) On May 8, when the Federal Communications Commission website failed and many people were prevented from submitting comments about net neutrality, the cause seemed obvious. Comedian John Oliver had just aired a segment blasting FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to gut net neutrality rules, and it appeared that the site just couldn’t handle the sudden influx of comments. But when...
