Collaborate Disseminate
The barrage of information leaks, state-sponsored espionage and hacktivism related to the U.S. presidential election has had a mixed bag of effects on the race and voter confidence. Continue reading Election Leaks Failed to Move Needle on Polls
Small Bluetooth-enabled trackers from TrackR, iTrack and Nut are the latest connected devices to pose a privacy risk to users. Continue reading Find Your Keys, Lose Your Privacy
Millions of IP-enabled cameras built on gear manufactured by Hangzhou Xiongmai of China is being recalled after DDoS attacks powered by compromised IOT devices took down a major DNS provider last week. Continue reading Chinese Manufacturer Recalls IOT Gear Following Dyn DDoS
Ten percent of the 550,000 IoT nodes in the Mirai botnet are involved in ongoing DDoS attacks against DNS provider Dyn and others. Continue reading Mirai-Fueled IoT Botnet Behind DDoS Attacks on DNS Providers
A privilege escalation vulnerability, nicknamed Dirty Cow and present in Linux since 2007, has been used in public attacks against web-facing Linux servers. Continue reading Serious Dirty Cow Linux Vulnerability Under Attack
Yahoo wrote DNI James Clapper asking the government to confirm and declassify an order to scan email for intelligence surveillance purposes. Continue reading Yahoo Asks DNI to De-Classify Email Scanning Order
An academic paper demonstrates a new ASLR bypass executed through a side-channel attack against the branch target buffer in an Intel Haswell CPU. Continue reading Bypassing ASLR in 60 Milliseconds
An academic paper demonstrates a new ASLR bypass executed through a side-channel attack against the branch target buffer in an Intel Haswell CPU. Continue reading Bypassing ASLR in 60 Milliseconds
A research paper explains how attackers can use recordings of keystroke sounds captured in a Skype conversation to guess what’s being typed. Continue reading Skyping and Typing the Latest Threat to Privacy
Level 3 Communications said the Mirai botnet has recruited close to 500,000 IoT devices since the malware’s source code was released. Continue reading Mirai Bots More Than Double Since Source Code Release