Collaborate Disseminate
There is vulnerability in many Hyundai and Kia vehicles, where the ignition switch can be bypassed with a USB cable. And it’s getting a patch rollout right now, but it’s …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: USB Cable Kia, Reddit, And Microsoft RCEs
Jenny did an Ask Hackaday article earlier this month, all about the quest for a cheap computer-based audio mixer. The first attempt didn’t go so well, with a problem that …read more Continue reading How To Build Jenny’s Budget Mixing Desk
There are a few binaries that wind up running in a bunch of places, silently do their jobs, and being easily forgotten about. ImageMagick is used on many servers for …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: ImageMagick, vBulletin, and Dota 2
We have a thing for DOOM, and we admit it. The source was released, and clever hackers have ported the engine to every system imaginable. It’s a right of passage, …read more Continue reading OG DOOM Shows off the Origins of Multi-Monitor
[Fathy] gets a kick out of doing odd things with Chromium, and Carbonyl is a clever byproduct of that hobby. In this case, it’s what you get when you connect …read more Continue reading Surfing the Web Like it’s 1978 — Carbonyl
It turns out that typing all day just might be bad for your hands and fingers. Repetitive Strain Injury, RSI, was a real problem for [David Schiller], particularly when coding. …read more Continue reading Fulcrum Foils Finger Fatigue
GitHub Desktop may have stopped working for you yesterday, Febuary 2nd. The reason was an unauthorized access to some decidedly non-public repositories. The most serious bit of information that escaped …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Github, Google, and Realtek
While it’s not normal Hackaday fare, we’ve covered the Dungeons & Dragons licensing kerfuffle, partially because we’re all nerds at heart, and also because it’s worrying that an Open Source …read more Continue reading Wizards Get Creative, Maybe Save the World
When we first saw tweets about a security issue in Grand Theft Auto V, it sounded a bit like a troll. “Press ‘alt and f4’ to unlock a cheat mode”, …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: GTA, Apple and Android, and Insecure Boot
First up, git has been audited. This was an effort sponsored by the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF), a non-profit working to improve the security of Open Source projects. …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Git Deep Dive, Mailchimp, and SPF