NoCrackingZone | Archives | 2019 | October

Copy-and-paste sharing on Stack Overflow spreads insecure code

It’s the time-saving technique employed by many coders – copy and paste code from crowd-sourcing ‘Q&A’ websites. But is it always secure?

TOMS seems like a really nice shoe company, and it just got hacked in a really nice way. But it’s still a hack.

Remember the FaceTime bug that allowed a caller to eavesdrop on your phone? Researchers just discovered another – this time in Signal.

Girlfriend found it, girlfriend popped it onto a city bus, gadget got found, multiyear investigation got launched, 20 got indicted.

It’s coming next month, in spite of a lawsuit and the data regulator’s protests about lack of consent, data security and privacy.

Android smartphones are vulnerable to a zero-day exploit that Google thought it had patched for good two years ago.

The US, UK and Australian governments last week officially urged Facebook to halt its plans for end-to-end encryption.

The EU’s top court ruled that platforms like Facebook can be ordered to proactively seek out and delete all copies of illegal content.

Police could set up transceivers outside a building and compare spectrograms of suspects walking vs. crime scene footage.