Security researchers have discovered a handful of game-changing vulnerabilities that spell trouble for dozens of connected device vendors and their customers.
Tag Archives: Black Hat
Former hacker warns against password reuse
Kyle Milliken is back from jail, and he has some advice for you: Do. Not. Reuse. Your. Passwords.
Fake news doesn’t (always) fool mice
Mice can interpret speech phonemes correctly up to 80% of the time without falling for semantic hoodwinks like humans do.
Apple will hand out unlocked iPhones to vetted researchers
It formalizes the reality: “pre-jailbroken” iPhones were already on the black market.
For sale: Gray-market iPhones that yield secrets to encryption
The prototype iPhones are slipping out of Apple’s supply chain with disabled security, to the delight of researchers and jailbreakers.
Pacemaker controllers still vulnerable 18 months after flaws reported
A popular brand of heart pacemaker is still vulnerable to compromise more than a year and a half after the company that makes them was told of weaknesses in its security, researchers have claimed.
15,000-strong army of Twitter robots found spreading cryptocurrency spam
Researchers unearthed an army of 15,000 robot Twitter accounts plying a cryptocurrency scam.
Leaky radio devices broadcast chipset data, discover researchers
Researchers at EURECOM S3 Group found that they can extract crypto keys from a set of run-of-the-mill communications chips just by listening to the noise it makes.
Chet Chat Podcast 211 – A virus on a *Mac*? Is NOTHING sacred?
Episode 211 of our weekly security podcast – a quarter-hour of news with attitude. Enjoy. Update Tuesday, Firefox’s zero-day, more Android bugginess, a firmware virus for your Mac …and a tax fraudster busted.
Stagefrightened Google, Samsung to push out monthly Android fixes
The aptly named Stagefright vulnerability scared them into action. Let’s hope that fear shakes up all the vendors and carriers so the fixes get to us ASAP.