On August 9th, 2015 with 70 comments
The BBC reports that Black Hat presenters Bruce Potter and Sasha Moore described at this year's Black Hat Briefings a security flaw in Linux servers: too few...
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On August 9th, 2015 with 48 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Jeff Atwood has a post about a security threat that's becoming more prevalent every day: spreading malware through a compromised...
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On August 7th, 2015 with 65 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Security research firm Check Point has released information about a new vulnerability called Certifi-gate, which they say...
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On August 7th, 2015 with 124 comments
jfruh writes: Security researcher Christopher Domas has demonstrated a method of installing a rootkit in a PC's firmware that exploits a feature built into...
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On August 7th, 2015 with 278 comments
Nerval's Lobster writes: If you look at the broad numbers produced by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the economy seems great, especially for the tech...
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On August 5th, 2015 with 35 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Joe Greenwood, of cybersecurity firm 4Armed, recently gave a live demonstration of some of Hacking Team's leaked spyware to the...
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On August 4th, 2015 with 74 comments
Once a botnet has taken root in a large pool of computers, truly expunging it from them may be a forlorn hope. That, writes itwbennett, is: the finding of...
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On August 4th, 2015 with 388 comments
sciencehabit writes: If you're constantly bundling up against your office building's air conditioning, blame Povl Ole Fanger. In the 1960s, this Danish...
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On August 3rd, 2015 with 127 comments
holy_calamity writes: When (or if) quantum computers become practical they will make existing forms of encryption useless. But now researchers at Microsoft say...
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On August 3rd, 2015 with 95 comments
Mark Wilson writes: Is the battery in your smartphone being used to track your online activities? It might seem unlikely, but it's not quite as farfetched as...
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On August 3rd, 2015 with 117 comments
BIOS4breakfast writes: Wired reports that later this week at BlackHat and Defcon, Trammell Hudson will show the Thunderstrike 2 update to his Thunderstrike...
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On July 31st, 2015 with 45 comments
ninjagin writes: They might be underneath a desk, hauling cables above your ceiling, swapping out a drive in your data center, putting the blue smoke back...
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On July 29th, 2015 with 76 comments
Patrick O'Neill writes: New research into Industrial Ethernet Switches reveals a wide host of vulnerabilities that leave critical infrastructure facilities...
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On July 29th, 2015 with 27 comments
jfruh writes: Next month's Def Con security conference will feature, among other things, new tools that will help you hack into the RFID readers that secure...
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On July 29th, 2015 with 73 comments
An anonymous reader writes: It was inevitable: as soon as we heard about computer-aimed rifles, we knew somebody would find a way to compromise their security....
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On July 28th, 2015 with 44 comments
Tom Henderson is a long-time observer of the IT scene, complete with scowl and grey goatee. And cynicism. Tom is a world-class cynic, no doubt about it. Why?...
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On July 28th, 2015 with 61 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Per Thorsheim, the founder of PasswordsCon, created and trained a biometric profile of his keystroke dynamics using the Tor browser...
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On July 28th, 2015 with 57 comments
HughPickens.com writes: Keith Collins writes at Quartz that the going rate for a stolen identity is about twenty bucks on the internet black market. Collins...
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On July 28th, 2015 with 80 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers from Ben Gurion University managed to extract GSM signals from air gapped computers using only a simple cellphone....
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On July 28th, 2015 with 147 comments
darthcamaro writes: Ok so we know that Chrysler cars will be hacked at Black Hat, Android will be hacked at DEFCON with Stagefright, and now word has come out...
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On July 27th, 2015 with 120 comments
techtech writes: According to security firm Zimperium a flaw called "Stagefright" in Google's Android operating system can allow hackers take over a phone with...
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On July 27th, 2015 with 97 comments
itwbennett writes: A new (tentative) global trade agreement, struck on Friday at a World Trade Organization meeting in Geneva, eliminates tariffs on more than...
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On July 27th, 2015 with 203 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Up to 950 million Android phones may be vulnerable to a new exploit involving the Stagefright component of Android, which lets...
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On July 27th, 2015 with 62 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Valve has fixed a bug in their account authentication system that allowed attackers to easily reset the password to a Steam...
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On July 27th, 2015 with 365 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Password managers aren't a security panacea, but experts widely agree that it's better to use one than to have weak (but...
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On July 25th, 2015 with 61 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and University College London published a paper this week describing a...
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On July 25th, 2015 with 56 comments
New submitter Jordan13 writes: SecurityWeek reports on the findings of a group of Italian researchers about web malware. They developed three new obfuscation...
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On July 25th, 2015 with 55 comments
badger.foo writes: Get your facts straight before reporting, is the main takeaway from Peter Hansteen's latest piece, The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn't. OpenSSH...
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On July 24th, 2015 with 114 comments
jaromil writes: Last day we released Tomb version 2.1 with improvements to stability, documentation and translations. Tomb is just a ZSh script wrapping around...
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On July 24th, 2015 with 160 comments
Albanach writes: Following on from this week's Wired report showing the remote control of a Jeep using a cell phone, security researchers claim to have...
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