College students hijack $80 million yacht with GPS signal spoofing

A GPS spoofing project shows how easy it could be to take control of very powerful equipment.

A group of students at the University of Texas at Austin built and successfully tested a GPS spoofing device to remotely redirect an $80 million yacht onto a different route, the Houston Chronicle reports. The project, which was completed with the permission of the yacht’s owners in the Mediterranean Sea this past June, is explained in the video below.

Windows XP’s countdown to retirement: T-minus 500 days

Microsoft is putting the 11-year-old operating system out to pasture in another year and a half and it means it. So get moving.

We are now less than 500 days from the end of support for Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Office 2003. Looking at the size of the existing XP population, that makes me rather nervous.