Collaborate Disseminate
This week, Las Vegas, Linux vulnerabilities, malicious faxes, Apple macOS vulnerabilities, and police body cams open to attack. We air a pre recorded interview with Matt Alderman and Torin Sandall from Styra at Def Con 2018, and more on this episode of… Continue reading Def Con, Black Hat, Apple MacOS, and Styra – Hack Naked News #184
Your Mac computer running the Apple’s latest High Sierra operating system can be hacked by tweaking just two lines of code, a researcher demonstrated at the Def Con security conference on Sunday.
Patrick Wardle, an ex-NSA hacker and now Chief Research… Continue reading ex-NSA Hacker Discloses macOS High Sierra Zero-Day Vulnerability
As researchers we interesting in developmental prototypes of malware that have had limited distribution or not even occurred in the wild. We recently came across one such sample: a macOS backdoor that we named Calisto. Continue reading Calisto Trojan for macOS
Researcher brings Apple down to earth, addressing Mac malware questions and the company’s smart moves to bolster security. Continue reading Newsmaker Interview: Patrick Wardle Talks Apple Malware Flubs and Successes
Security researchers are warning of almost a decade old issue with one of the Apple’s macOS feature which was designed for users’ convenience but is potentially exposing the contents of files stored on password-protected encrypted drives.
Earlier this… Continue reading Apple macOS Bug Reveals Cache of Sensitive Data from Encrypted Drives
A years-old vulnerability has been discovered in the way several security products for Mac implement Apple’s code-signing API that could make it easier for malicious programs to bypass the security check, potentially leaving millions of Apple users vul… Continue reading Signature Validation Bug Let Malware Bypass Several Mac Security Products
At Worldwide Developer Conference 2018 on Monday, Apple announced the next version of its macOS operating system, and it’s called Mojave.
Besides introducing new features and improvements of macOS 10.14 Mojave—like Dark Mode, Group FaceTime, Dynamic D… Continue reading All New Privacy and Security Features Coming in macOS 10.14 Mojave
A researcher with the Twitter handle ‘Siguza’ published details of a macOS local privilege escalation vulnerability dating back to 2002 that could give an attacker root access to systems. Continue reading MacOS LPE Exploit Gives Attackers Root Access
A researcher with the Twitter handle ‘Siguza’ published details of a macOS local privilege escalation vulnerability dating back to 2002 that could give an attacker root access to systems. Continue reading MacOS LPE Exploit Gives Attackers Root Access
Back in January this year we found a new family of cross-platform backdoors for desktop environments. After the discovery of the binaries for Linux and Windows systems, we have now finally come across the OS X version of Mokes.A. Continue reading The Missing Piece – Sophisticated OS X Backdoor Discovered