Monday review – the hot 21 stories of the week
From the Momo Challenge to Mozilla’s potential insider threats from Aussie staff, and everything in between – it’s weekly roundup time. Continue reading Monday review – the hot 21 stories of the week
Category Archives: computer security
Monday review – the hot 23 stories of the week
From leaky password managers to nearly 100 million new stolen data records, and everything in between. It’s weekly roundup time. Continue reading Monday review – the hot 23 stories of the week
Monday review – the hot 28 stories of the week
From McDonald’s hamburglars to 1000-character phishing urls, and everything between. It’s weekly roundup time. Continue reading Monday review – the hot 28 stories of the week
Monday review – the hot 24 stories of the week
From the FBI-supporting DNA kit company, to the privacy bug in gay dating app Jack’d, and everything in between. It’s weekly roundup time. Continue reading Monday review – the hot 24 stories of the week
Monday review – the hot 28 stories of the week
From the DNS outage that deleted users’ Azure data to the Nest security cam hijacker, and everything in between. It’s weekly roundup time. Continue reading Monday review – the hot 28 stories of the week
Unlocking God Mode on x86 Processors
We missed this Blackhat talk back in August, but it’s so good we’re glad to find out about it now. [Christopher Domas] details his obsession with hidden processor instructions, and how he discovered an intentional backdoor in certain x86 processors. These processors have a secondary RISC core, and an undocumented procedure to run code on that core, bypassing the normal user/kernel separation mechanisms.
The result is that these specific processors have an intentional mechanism that allows any unprivileged user to jump directly to root level access. The most fascinating part of the talk is the methodical approach [Domas] took to …read more
Monday review – the hot 24 stories of the week
From the US gov’s emergency directive to the 10 Year Challenge, and everything in between. It’s weekly roundup time. Continue reading Monday review – the hot 24 stories of the week
Monday review – the hot 23 stories of the week
From WhatsApps that aren’t meant for you to the highly promising USB-C authentication, and everything in between. It’s weekly roundup time. Continue reading Monday review – the hot 23 stories of the week
Monday review – the hot 22 stories of the week
From vulnerable 2FA codes to phishing to critical flaws for Adobe Acrobat and Reader, and everything in between. It’s weekly roundup time. Continue reading Monday review – the hot 22 stories of the week
Monday review – the hot stories of the new year
From same old, same old Facebook hoaxes to PewDiePie’s Chromecast-hacking fans, here are the top stories of the new year. Continue reading Monday review – the hot stories of the new year