Your phone’s power brick is typically a relatively innocuous piece of tech, but recently, researchers at a Chinese security firm discovered a way to hack a fast charge power adapter so that when ...

Join us on Wednesday, August 17 at noon Pacific for the Steam Power Hack Chat with Quinn Dunki! The steam power age may be behind us now, but that doesn’t mean that the engineering that went into ...

There are few tools in your toolbox that get as much use as a power drill. It might seem like a simple piece of machinery, but whether it's made by Ryobi or Milwaukee, the power drill is one tool that ...

At 12 billion miles (20 billion kilometers) from Earth, Voyager 2 is so far that it takes more than 22 hours for NASA’s signals to reach the probe. With its power gradually diminishing, mission ...

A month after hackers blacked out power in western Ukraine, a team of U.S. security experts touched down in Kiev to piece together the extraordinary assault. Interviews, cellphone video evidence and a ...

We love that part in Apollo 13 where the NASA engineers have to fit a square carbon dioxide filter in a round hole. We love basically every scene of The Martian where Mark Watney hacks together any ...

Cracking a power company network and gaining access to supervisory, control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that could shut down the grid is simple, security expert and penetration-testing ...

The hack to the electrical grid, which was first reported in The Wall Street Journal Wednesday, was found after malware--malicious software--was discovered on workstations that appeared to come from ...

Security consultant says it took less than a day to take over machines at a power company and gain control over networks overseeing power production and distribution Cracking a power company network ...