Security News > 2020 > January > Rowhammer rides again as FPGA attack, RSA again reportedly up for sale, anti-theft kit to nuke laptops, etc

The team at Tencent Keen Security Lab has done it again: hacking Tesla's Model S, in which the security shop's parent company has a significant stake.

One Dell of a start to 2020 for RSA. It seems security company RSA's days as a part of the Dell family of brands may be numbered.

The familiar Rowhammer technique has now been extended to servers and other systems that link together FPGAs and CPU cores.

The town of Erie, high in Colorado, USA, found itself deep in the weeds after an email-based scam resulted in it getting lit up to the tune of $1m. The decidedly not-chill hackers posed as accountants from a construction company that built a bridge for the town.

Using the lookalike email addresses, the hackers contacted city workers and requested the method of payment for the building work be changed.

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