WordPress sites with the TimThumb image thumbnailing plugin could be taken over by attackers. Paul Ducklin looks at what went wrong and explains how to fix the hole…
Daily Archives: June 26, 2014
Serial hacker Cameron Lacroix gets four year jail term after taking plea bargain
A serial hacker with a long history of computer offences has pleaded guilty to computer intrusion and access device fraud charges, accepting a sentence of four years in jail in return for his plea.
“Towelroot” app makes it easy to root Galaxy S5 and other locked Androids…
Galaxy S5 users will be cheering. System administrators are probably groaning. Paul Ducklin looks at an Android-era variant of Hamlet’s dilemma: “To root or not to root, that is the question.”
Is that Google Glass wearer stealing your iPad passcode?
What about the one with a smartwatch? Snoopers can catch your code from nearly 10 feet away with Google Glass or Samsung’s smartwatch and from almost 150 away using a HD camcorder, thanks to researchers’ custom-coded, shadow-tracking recognition algorithm.