The Very Best Black Hat Hacks

As they do every year, hackers descended on Las Vegas this week to show off the many ways they can decimate the internet's security systems. Here's a collection of some of our favorite talks from this week's Black Hat conference, including some we didn't get the chance to cover in depth. Before the week even began, we took a look at how $15 worth of magnets could overcome a "smart" gun's protections, turning it into just a regular ol' gun. Similarly, a popular safe turned out to be anything but against a homemade robot safecracker. Some of the popular tools hackers use to control other people's systems, which turn out to be riddled with vulnerabilities themselves. Radioactivity sensors are easy to hack and not likely to get fixed.