A comprehensive new report lifts the lid on the sketchy state of ATM security.
Monthly Archives: November 2018
Judge asks if Alexa is witness to a double murder
A judge has ordered Amazon to turn over any recordings an Echo device may have made around the time a horrific crime occurred.
Hacking MiSafes’ smartwatches for kids is child’s play
Researchers describe breaking into the watches as “probably the simplest hack we have ever seen.”
AI-generated ‘skeleton keys’ fool fingerprint scanners
Artificial intelligence can be used to ‘grow’ fake fingerprints that pack in common features, fooling scanners.
Thought you deleted your iPhone photos? Hackers find a way to get them back
The hacking duo @fluoroacetate demonstrated zero-day exploits against phones from Apple, Samsung and Xiaomi at the recent Pwn2Own contest.
Official Google Twitter account hacked in Bitcoin scam
The epidemic of Twitter-based Bitcoin scams took another twist this week as attackers tweeted scams directly from two verified high-profile accounts.
DARPA uses a remote island to stage a cyberattack on the US power grid
It enacted a worst-case, “black start” scenario: swaths of the country’s grid offline for a month, battery backups exhausted.
France: Let’s make the internet safer! US: ‘How about NO?!’
Don’t cry for us, Argentina: Critics saw potential for government meddling without court order, among other issues.
Steganography – cool cybersecurity trick or dangerous risk? [VIDEO]
Burying secret data in plain sight- is it a clever cybersecurity trick, or a way to attract the very attention you wanted to avoid?
Targeted ransomware attacks – SophosLabs 2019 Threat Report
This year’s SophosLabs Threat Report is out. We talk targeted ransomware attacks, and in particular, SamSam.