Collaborate Disseminate
A shady financial firm tried to bury and short sell AMD based on several security vulnerabilities discovered by CTS Labs. But the tactic appears to have failed. Continue reading Can AMD Vulnerabilities Be Used to Game the Stock Market?
Security researchers announced a series of 13 vulnerabilities within AMD’s RYZEN and EPYC processors that could make some data breaches even worse. Continue reading Researchers Say AMD Processors Have Serious Vulnerabilities and Backdoors
In a peek into the way governments may source hacking tools, Motherboard obtained a 2015 letter the Israeli Ministry of Defense sent to US-based exploit developers. Continue reading Here’s the Letter Israel Sent to Solicit Zero-Days From American Hackers
A security researcher discovered a flaw in a T-Mobile website that let hackers log in as any customer. Continue reading ‘Critical’ T-Mobile Bug Allowed Hackers To Hijack Users’ Accounts
This week, Jason reports on attackers exploiting unpatched flaw in Flash, new Western Digital My Cloud bugs give local attacker root on NAS devices, sensitive Super Bowl security documents found on plane, and more on this episode of Hack Naked News! Ne… Continue reading Grammarly, Flash Flaw, and Super Bowl Security Leak – Hack Naked News #160
Google’s elite team of hackers released a much-anticipated tool to help security researchers hack and jailbreak the iPhone. Continue reading Google Releases Tool To Help iPhone Hackers
A security researcher found a critical bug in a new Facebook feature, and got a $10,000 reward for telling the social media giant. Continue reading Newly Discovered Facebook Bug Allowed Anyone To Delete Your Photos With A Poll
The cloud-based word processing program was serving some users “Error 502” messages Wednesday afternoon. Continue reading Google Docs Is Fixed, Back to Work Everyone
It seems that the database containing descriptions of critical and unfixed bugs and/or vulnerabilities in some of the most widely used software in the world, including the Windows operating system, has hacked back in 2013. This database is basically gold for any security researcher, regardless of the color of their hat. To know which programs fail and the preconditions for that to happen is half an exploit right there.
Microsoft discovered the database breach in early 2013 after the highly skilled hacking group Morpho a.k.a. Butterfly a.k.a. Wild Neutron broke into computers at a number of major tech companies, including …read more
News, via Dan Goodin, writing at our beloved ArsTechnica, detailing an enormous factorization flaw within Infeneon-based 2048-bit RSA keys tied to a widening number of encryption products worldwide. The implications are equally enormous. H/T
