Thousands of Corporate Secrets Were Left Exposed. This Guy Found Them All
If you know where to look, plenty of secrets can be found online. Since the fall of 2021, independent security…
Google Researchers Found Nearly a Dozen Flaws in Popular Qualcomm Software for Mobile GPUs
Demand for graphics processing units or GPUs has exploded in recent years as video rendering and artificial intelligence systems have…
Flaws in Ubiquitous ATM Software Could Have Let Attackers Take Over Cash Machines
There is a grand tradition at the annual Defcon security conference in Las Vegas of hacking ATMs. Unlocking them with…
‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections
In a background statement to WIRED, AMD emphasized the difficulty of exploiting Sinkclose: To take advantage of the vulnerability, a…
Computer Crash Reports Are an Untapped Hacker Gold Mine
When a bad software update from the security firm CrowdStrike inadvertently caused digital chaos around the world last month, the…
Tricky Web Timing Attacks Are Getting Easier to Use—and Abuse
Researchers have long known that they can glean hidden information about the inner workings of a website by measuring the…
USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation
Smith trawled Reddit and other online sources to find people reporting the scam and the URLs being used, which he…
A New Plan to Break the Cycle of Destructive Critical Infrastructure Hacks
“It’s not just that the water goes out, it’s that when the sole wastewater facility in your community is down…
A $500 Open Source Tool Lets Anyone Hack Computer Chips With Lasers
As they built the RayV Lite, Beaumont and Trowell focused on two distinct laser hacking methods. One is laser fault…
US Hands Over Russian Cybercriminals in WSJ Reporter Prisoner Swap
If it seems like there’s suddenly a whole lot more data breaches, you may be right. Part of this apparent…
