Collaborate Disseminate
A couple weeks ago we talked about inn-app browsers, and the potential privacy issues when opening content in them. This week Microsoft reveals the other side of that security coin …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: One-click, UPnP, Mainframes, and Exploring the Fog
[James Stanley] enjoys chess, isn’t terribly good at it, and has some dubious scruples. At least, that’s the setup for building Sockfish, a shoe-to-Pi interface to let you cheat at …read more Continue reading How To Be a Stinkin’ Chess Cheat — Sockfish
Ahh, floppy disks. Few things carry nostalgia quite like a floppy — either 3 1⁄2 or 5 1⁄4, depending on which generation of hacker you happen to be. (And yes, …read more Continue reading Magnetic Maniac Manages Mangled Memory
[Will Stelter], a promising young blacksmith working out of Montana, had a terrific idea for a unique composite material for finishing off a knife build. This build is a collaboration …read more Continue reading Fail of the Week: Bronze-Brazed Wrought Iron
There’s a bit of a panic regarding Chromium, Google Chrome, the system clipboard, and of all things, Google Doodles on the New Tab Page. It’s all about Chromium issue 1334203, …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Malicious Clipboards, Snakes on a Domain, and Binary Golf
An MMORPG with cute anime-style characters and maybe a bit too much inspiration taken from another classic Nintento franchise, Genshin Impact is a relatively popular game across the PlayStation, iOS, …read more Continue reading Genshin Security Impact
There’s yet another brouhaha forming over Twitter, but this time around it’s a security researcher making noise instead of an eccentric billionaire. [Peiter Zatko] worked as Twitter’s security chief for …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: In Mudge We Trust, Don’t Trust That App Browser, and Firefox at Pwn2Own
It’s debatable just how useful Secure Boot is for end users, but now there’s yet another issue with Secure Boot, or more specifically, a trio of signed bootloaders. Researchers at …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Secure Boot Bypass, Attack on Titan M, KASLR Weakness
There’s a dreaded disease that’s plagued Internet Service Providers for years. OK, there’s probably several diseases, but today we’re talking about bufferbloat. What it is, how to test for it, …read more Continue reading Bufferbloat, the Internet, and How to Fix It
So you may have gotten a Slack password reset prompt. Something like half a percent of Slack’s userbase had their password hash potentially exposed due to an odd bug. When …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Breaches, ÆPIC, SQUIP, and Symbols