Black Hills Information Security, Rick Wisser and Sierra Ward’s ‘Hardware Hacking 101’

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Fourth Spectre/Meltdown Hole of Doom Discovered

via Chris Williams, Editor in Chief of The Register, comes this surprising/yet not surprising fourth security flaw that now joins the Spectre/Meltdown Speculative Execution flaw in modern CPUs. Bad news for all.

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Hardware Envelope, A Secure Conveyance

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via Samuel H. Moore, writing at the IEEE’s Spectrum Magazine, comes word of the ‘Unhackable Envelope’. The Fraunhofer team (developers of the Unhackable Envelope) comprised of Vincent Immler – Fraunhofer Institute for Applie… Continue reading Hardware Envelope, A Secure Conveyance

Russia Flogging Zero-Day Exploits

via Joseph Cox, writing at Motherboard (a Vice property), tells ths unfortunate tale of a Russian company selling zero-day exploit code, targeting hospital software… Today’s MustRead. H/T

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All’s Not Quiet On The SCADA Front

via Zack Whittaker timely reportage for ZDNet’s Zero Day group, his work provides insight to the tangled-web-we-weave in the ICS/SCADA world. This time – the ramifications of a particularly-pesky security flaw in a Schneider product (amongst thousand… Continue reading All’s Not Quiet On The SCADA Front

The Grayshift Predicament

I am sure you have all read the news of Grayshift’s issues battling extortionists and their ilk. I have, however, not seen any significant commentary regarding the data theft this SNAFU could facilitate.
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Interesting DOJ Investigation: Peering Into Mobile Telecom Carriers eSIM Locking Attempts

via Jon Brodkin – putting the scriv in scrivening at our beloved Ars Technica, looks into the latest United States Department of Justice investigation into a couple of mobile telephony giants. Read all about it, and weep for your SIM freedom.
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Sacré Bleu! Tamper Proof Cryptocash Wallet Tampered With…

What does Savoir-Faire the French-Canadian Mouse have to do with hardware that ‘cannot be tampered with’? Quite a bit, as a matter of fact. What follows is a tale of extreme arrogance exhibited by a hardware manufacturer, and the nearly overwhelming … Continue reading Sacré Bleu! Tamper Proof Cryptocash Wallet Tampered With…