Collaborate Disseminate
One of the most popular WordPress backup plugins, UpdraftPlus, has released a set of updates, x.22.3, that contain a potentially important fix for CVE-2022-23303. This vulnerability exposes existing backups to …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Updraft, Termux, and Magento
People have gotten much savvier about computer security in the last decade or so. Most people know that sending a document with sensitive information in it is a no-no, so …read more Continue reading Pixelating Text Not a Good Idea
You’ve probably heard of the infamous rule 34, but we’d like to propose a new rule — call it rule 35: Anything that can be used for nefarious purposes will …read more Continue reading No Privacy: Cloning the AirTag
Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall, watching a penetration tester attack a new machine — working their way through the layers of security, ultimately leveraging …read more Continue reading How a Pentester Gets Root
Running Chrome or a Bhromium-based browser? Check for version 98.0.4758.102, and update if you’re not running that release or better. Quick tip, use chrome://restart to trigger an immediate restart of …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Chrome 0-day,Cassandra, and a Cisco PoC
Samba has a very serious vulnerability, CVE-2021-44142, that was just patched in new releases 4.13.17, 4.14.12, and 4.15.5. Discovered by researchers at TrendMicro, this unauthenticated RCE bug weighs in at …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Samba, Wormhole Crypto Heist, And A Bogus CVE
One of the many fascinating fields that’s covered by Hackaday’s remit lies in the world of hardware security, working with physical electronic hardware to reveal inner secrets concealed in its …read more Continue reading Remoticon 2021 // Colin O’Flynn Zaps Chips (And They Talk)
Looking to get into fault injection for your reverse engineering projects, but don’t have the cash to lay out for the necessary hardware? Fear not, for the tools to glitch …read more Continue reading Blast Chips with This BBQ Lighter Fault Injection Tool
[Elite Worm] had a problem; there had been two minor burglaries from a storage unit. The unit had thick concrete walls, cellular signal was poor down there, and permanent wiring …read more Continue reading Long Range Burglar Alarm Relies on LoRa Modules
The CIA Hacktivists have launched a sort of ransomware campaign against the Belarusian rail system, but instead of cryptocurrency, they want the release of political prisoners and removal of Russian …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Geopolitical Hacktivism, Antivirus Mining, and Linux Malware