Collaborate Disseminate
[Michael Lynch]’s adventures in configuring Nix to automate fuzz testing is a lot of things all rolled into one. It’s not only a primer on fuzz testing (a method of …read more Continue reading Nix + Automated Fuzz Testing Finds Bug in PDF Parser
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Ahead of the debut of Apple’s private AI cloud next week, dubbed Private Cloud Compute, the technology giant says it will pay security researchers up to $1 million to find vulnerabilities that can co… Continue reading Apple Will Pay Security Researchers Up To $1 Million To Hack Its Private AI Cloud
snydeq writes: CSO Online’s Sarah Wiedemar reports on a rising trend in the Russia cybersecurity community: bug bounty programs, which the researcher says could have far-reaching implications as the bounty ecosystem matures. From the report: “Given the… Continue reading Bug Bounty Programs Take Root In Russia
Computers blue-screen-of-death around the world! The Paris Olympics is at risk of attack! And the FBI pull off the biggest sting operation in history by running a secret end-to-end encrypted messaging app! All this and much much more is discussed in th… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #382: CrowdStrike, Dark Wire, and the Paris Olympics
Bug reporting doesn’t usually have a lot of visuals. Not so with the visionOS bug [Ryan Pickren] found, which fills a user’s area with screeching bats after visiting a malicious …read more Continue reading Bats Can No Longer Haunt Apple VR Headsets Via Web Exploit
When a ransomware attack targets something like a hospital, it quickly becomes a high-profile event that understandably results in public outrage. Hospitals are supposed to be backstops for society, a …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 23, 2024
The New York Stock Exchange said Monday it was investigating a “technical issue” that was leading to large fluctuations in the prices of certain stocks including Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. From a report: According to a notice posted on its we… Continue reading NYSE Investigating ‘Technical Issue’ That Showed Berkshire Hathaway Share Price Dropping 99%
Let’s face it — electronics are hard. Difficult concepts, tiny parts, inscrutable datasheets, and a hundred other factors make it easy to screw up in new and exciting ways. Sometimes …read more Continue reading Chip Mystery: The Case of the Purloined Pin
The macOS Sonoma 14.4 update introduces a bug affecting iCloud Drive’s versioning system, where users with “Optimize Mac Storage” enabled can lose all previous versions of a file removed from local storage. MacRumors reports: Versions are normally crea… Continue reading macOS Sonoma 14.4 Bug ‘Destroys Saved Versions In iCloud Drive’
Bill Toulas reports via BleepingComputer: Google awarded $10 million to 632 researchers from 68 countries in 2023 for finding and responsibly reporting security flaws in the company’s products and services. Though this is lower than the $12 million Goo… Continue reading Google Paid $10 Million In Bug Bounty Rewards Last Year