Collaborate Disseminate
Microsoft’s Recall feature is back. You may remember our coverage of the new AI feature back in June, but for the uninitiated, it was a creepy security trainwreck. The idea …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Recall, BadRAM, and OpenWRT
Maybe those backdoors weren’t such a great idea. Several US Telecom networks have been compromised by a foreign actor, likely China’s Salt Typhoon, and it looks like one of the …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: National Backdoors, Web3 Backdoors, and Nearest Neighbor WiFi
The world of security research is no stranger to the phenomenon of not-a-vulnerability. That’s where a security researcher finds something interesting, reports it to the project, and it turns out …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Footguns, Bing Worms, and Gogs
[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
Steve Ballmer famously called Linux “viral”, with some not-entirely coherent complaints about the OS. In a hilarious instance of life imitating art, Windows machines are now getting attacked through malicious …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Linux VMs, Real AI CVEs, and Backscatter TOR DoS
Wired has a fascinating story this week, about the length Sophos has gone to for the last 5 years, to track down a group of malicious but clever security researchers …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Playing Tag, Hacking Cameras, and More
We see a fair few glitcher projects, especially the simpler voltage glitchers. Still, quite often due to their relative simplicity, they’re little more than a microcontroller board and a few …read more Continue reading Use PicoGlitcher For Voltage Glitching Attacks
A British journalistic trope involves the phrase “The pound in your pocket”, a derisory reference to the 1960s Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s use of it to try to persuade the …read more Continue reading The Pound ( or Euro, Or Dollar ) Can Still Be In Your Pocket
Leading off the week is the controversy around the Linux kernel and an unexpected change in maintainership. The exact change was that over a dozen developers with ties to or …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: The Geopolitical Kernel, Roundcube, and The Archive
Depending on who you ask, the big news this week is that quantum computing researchers out of China have broken RSA. And that’s true… sort of. There are multiple caveats, …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Quantum RSA Break, Out of Scope, and Spoofing Packets