Collaborate Disseminate
The bug exposed customers’ email addresses, their billing account numbers, and the phone’s IMSI numbers. T-Mobile has patched the bug. Continue reading T-Mobile Website Allowed Hackers to Access Your Account Data With Just Your Phone Number
If you ever watch a spy movie, you’ve doubtlessly seen some nameless tech character sweep a room for bugs using some kind of detector and either declare it clean or find the hidden microphone in the lamp. Of course, as a hacker, you have to start thinking about how that would work. If you had a bug that transmits all the time, that’s easy. The lamp probably shouldn’t be emitting RF energy all the time, so that’s easy to detect and a dead give away. But what if the bug were more sophisticated? Maybe it wakes up every hour and …read more
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Continue reading News in brief: hacker fail; voting fail; Twitter fail
Don’t bee afraid. Continue reading Trend Alert: Covering Yourself in Bees
A hacker says he turned finding and exploiting flaws in popular MMO video games into a lucrative, full-time, job. Continue reading For 20 Years, This Man Has Survived Entirely by Hacking Online Games
For now, security researchers who have been invited by Apple to submit high-value bugs through the program prefer to keep the bugs for themselves. Continue reading iPhone Bugs Are Too Valuable to Report to Apple
Concern rises as one study finds more than 8,000 vulnerabilities in seven pacemakers while another highlights wider issues in medical devices
Continue reading Security of medical devices ‘is a life or death issue’, warns researcher
From Cellebrite, to Shadow Brokers, to the CIA dump, so many recent data breaches have shown there is a real risk of exposure of government hacking tools. Continue reading Your Government’s Hacking Tools Are Not Safe
A partnership between the secret-spilling group and Google, Microsoft, and Apple has already hit its first road block. Continue reading WikiLeaks Won’t Tell Tech Companies How to Patch CIA Zero-Days Until Its Demands Are Met
