UPDATE–Wind turbines have been popping up across the United States in great numbers of late, and many of them are connected to the Internet. That, of course, means that these turbines are going to be natural targets for attackers and researchers. A security researcher named Maxim Rupp has discovered a cross-sire request forgery vulnerability in the operating […]
It’s been two years now since the first stories about NSA surveillance capabilities began to appear, and the environment has shifted dramatically in that time. Awareness of and resistance to mass surveillance has increased greatly, but the changes to policy and laws that many observers had hoped for haven’t necessarily emerged. A new report from Privacy […]
The latest campaign to leverage Skype – a botnet circulating adware, composed entirely of Skype users – was recently disrupted by researchers.
Tesla Motors has started a bug bounty program that will pay researchers up to $1,000 for disclosing vulnerabilities.
It may be time to upgrade your garage door opener. Security researcher Samy Kamkar has developed a new technique that enables him to open almost any garage door that uses a fixed code–and he implemented it on a $12 child’s toy.
A zero-day vulnerability has been disclosed in the popular Unity Web Player browser plugin. The flaw allows an attacker crossdomain access to websites and services using the victim’s credentials.
An audit of the SSH keys associated with more than a million GitHub accounts shows that some users have weak, easily factorable keys and many more are using keys that are still vulnerable to the Debian OpenSSL bug disclosed seven years ago.
Researchers have identified dozens of vulnerabilities in several D-Link products, some of which allow attackers to bypass authentication requirements or upload arbitrary files to target devices. The vulnerabilities lie in a variety of D-Link network storage devices and the company has produced updated firmware to address some of the problems. Researchers at Search-Lab discovered the […]
Researchers who discovered a half-dozen vulnerabilities in the free Hola VPN said today that fixes rolled out by Hola do not address the security issues they identified.
There is a vulnerability buried deep in the firmware of many Apple laptops that could allow an attacker to overwrite the machine’s BIOS and install a rootkit, gaining complete control of the Mac. The vulnerability lies in the UEFI system on some older MacBooks, and researcher Pedro Vilaca discovered that after a MacBook is put to […]
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