Collaborate Disseminate
When we first saw tweets about a security issue in Grand Theft Auto V, it sounded a bit like a troll. “Press ‘alt and f4’ to unlock a cheat mode”, …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: GTA, Apple and Android, and Insecure Boot
In case you thought that cameras, LiDAR, infrared sensors, and the like weren’t enough for Big Brother to track you, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have found a way to …read more Continue reading Tracking Humans with WiFi
Physical security is often considered simpler than digital security since safes are heavy and physical keys take more effort to duplicate than those of the digital persuasion. [Maxime Beasse and …read more Continue reading All Your Keys Are Belong to KeyDecoder
First up, git has been audited. This was an effort sponsored by the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF), a non-profit working to improve the security of Open Source projects. …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Git Deep Dive, Mailchimp, and SPF
This week we start with a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability that has potential to be a real pain for sysadmins. Cacti, the system monitoring and graphing solution, has a …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Cacti RCE
We mentioned the LastPass story in closing a couple weeks ago, but details were still a bit scarce. The hope was that LastPass would release more transparent information about what …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Lastpass Takeaway, Bitcoin Loss, and PyTorch
In the news a few days ago, the revelation that Luke Dashjr, a core Bitcoin developer, had his wallet compromised, and lost 200 BTC. A small fortune, and something of …read more Continue reading The Surprisingly Simple Way To Steal Cryptocurrency
By now it’s probable that most readers will have heard about LastPass’s “Security Incident“, in which users’ password vaults were lifted from their servers. We’re told that the vaults are …read more Continue reading The Problem With Passwords
The ubiquity of ransomware continues, this time with The Guardian announcing they were partially shut down from an attack. Staff are working from home as the incident is being investigated …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Adblock for Security, ProxyNotShell Lives, and CVSS 10 to Not Worry About
With the proliferation of biometric access to mobile devices, entering a password on your desktop can feel so passé. [Snazzy Labs] decided to fix this problem for his Mac by …read more Continue reading Standalone Touch ID for Your Desktop Mac