Wednesday 29 July 2015
Today in scary exploits: TrackingPoint sniper rifles – which run Linux and Android and have WiFi connections – can be remotely hacked. Who could have predicted that?* Hackers can then either disable the rifle or choose a new target. The only response to that news is: o_0 Yep! Someone made a rifle that can be remotely hacked. At the forthcoming Black Hat hacking conference, Runa Sandvik and her husband Michael Auger plan to present the results of a year’s work on exploiting two of the $13,000 self-aiming rifles. The pair have discovered how to brick the rifle, making its computer-targeting unusable, as well as getting root…
This story continues at The Next Web
