Collaborate Disseminate
Talking with [Tom Nardi] on the podcast this week, he mentioned his favorite kind of hack: the community-developed open-source firmware that can be flashed into a commercial product that has …read more Continue reading What’s Your Favorite Kind of Hack?
Google adds Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) to Chrome 146, using hardware keys to block infostealer use of stolen session cookies on Windows. Continue reading Google Chrome Update Disrupts Infostealer Cookie Theft
Yesterday, Bryan Lambert reported: Health care providers at Brockton Hospital are preparing to work off paper, not computers, for the next two weeks as the health care hub deals with an ongoing cybersecurity incident. The cybersecurity incident took m… Continue reading Brockton Hospital still dealing with aftermath of ransomware attack
Waveshare makes a nifty little ESP32-S3 based smartwatch product, but its firmware is apparently not to everyone’s liking. Specifically, it’s not to [infiniton] a.k.a [Bright_Warning_8406]’s liking, as they rewrote the …read more Continue reading Rust-y Firmware for Waveshare Smartwatch
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Trump administration has stepped up an effort to unmask a Reddit user who criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). After failing to obtain information through a summons issued (PDF… Continue reading US Demands Reddit Unmask ICE Critic, Summons Firm To Grand Jury
With each new game console, there’s an effort to get around whatever restrictions exist to run your own software on it. In the case of the Nintendo Wii, the system …read more Continue reading Digging Into the Twilight Hack that Brought Us Wii Homebrew
Attackers briefly hijacked part of CPUID’s backend and swapped legitimate download links on its site with malware-laced ones. “The issue hit tools like HWMonitor and CPU-Z, with users on Reddit and elsewhere starting to notice something wasn’t right wh… Continue reading CPUID Site Hijacked To Serve Malware Instead of HWMonitor Downloads
Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation surveillance system called Webloc.
The too… Continue reading Citizen Lab: Law Enforcement Used Webloc to Track 500 Million Devices via Ad Data
Analog synths are fun because they combine music, which all humans seem hard-wired to enjoy in one form or another, and electronics, which… uh, this is Hackaday. If you don’t …read more Continue reading Otamatone Hacked Into Different, Cooler Synth: Trautonium
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: As the Trump administration seeks to fill a national shortage of air traffic controllers, officials are targeting a new talent pool: gamers. The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday is m… Continue reading To Fill Air Traffic Controller Shortage, FAA Turns To Gamers