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Tag Archives: Vulnerability
Tor attack may have unmasked anonymous users
Two Carnegie-Mellon researchers had planned a highly anticipated talk at next week’s Black Hat security conference – a talk that was cancelled when the university’s lawyers freaked out – about how easy it is to break Tor anonymity. They’re innocent until proved guilty, but The Tor Project says it was likely the two researchers are behind the attack. 
Android “FakeID” security hole causes a pre-BlackHat stir
Seems that a rogue Android app can get more privileges than it deserves simply by saying that someone trustworthy has vouched for it. It’s been dubbed the “FakeID” hole…
SSCC 158 – What do you mean, “Don’t knit your own remote authentication?” [PODCAST]
Here’s this week’s Chet Chat security podcast for your listening pleasure. Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin of Sophos dissect the week’s security news to see what we can learn from other people’s mistakes…
Hacking, spamming, rogue SMSes and browsers – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
The week’s security news, turned into an entertaining lesson, turned into a 1-min video… 60 Sec Security, 26 July 2014
Hacker claims breach of Wall Street Journal and Vice
W0rm’s been quite busy and has already pulled this on CNET, and likewise is again offering to sell user data and server credentials for one Bitcoin. 
SSCC 157 – Routers, Browsers, Zombies and Sysadmins [PODCAST]
Here it is…this week’s Chet Chat security podcast. In this episode: fixing routers, trusting browsers, killing zombies and showing TLC to sysadmins. 
Firefox 31 has arrived – 11 bulletins, 3 critical, 0 visual surprises
Firefox 31 is out. So is its updated conservative older brother, the Extended Support Release, now at 24.7. And Firefox’s email-oriented cousin Thunderbird gets updated, too.
Car hackers build anti-car-hacking gadget
Besides yet more white-knuckled car-jacking stunts, security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek also plan to unveil at next month’s Black Hat conference a prototype device meant to foil the type of hacks they’ve been throwing at cars.
SoHo routers to get hacker-style scrutiny in return for “awesome” prizes
Buy a $50 SoHo router, plug it in, press a couple of buttons. Bingo! A connected household! What could possibly go wrong? If history is any guide, quite a lot…