Collaborate Disseminate
IoT protocols are a relatively unexplored field compared to most PC-exposed protocols – it’s bothersome to need a whole radio setup before you can tinker on something, and often, for …read more Continue reading Crash IoT Devices Through Protocol Fuzzing
A feature of coming to adulthood for any young person in the last quarter of the twentieth century would have been the yearly warnings about the danger of adulterated Halloween …read more Continue reading Flipper Zero Panic Spreads To Oz: Cars Unaffected
A cold boot attack is a way to extract RAM contents from a running system by power cycling it and reading out RAM immediately after loading your own OS. How …read more Continue reading Cold Boot Attack You Can Do With A Pi
A recent security vulnerability — a potential ssh backdoor via the liblzma library in the xz package — is having a lot of analysis done on how the vulnerability was …read more Continue reading Exploit the Stressed-out Package Maintainer, Exploit the Software Package
In breaking news that dropped just after our weekly security column went live, a backdoor has been discovered in the xz package, that could potentially compromise SSH logins on Linux …read more Continue reading Security Alert: Potential SSH Backdoor Via Liblzma
The Linux command wall is a hold-over from the way Unix machines used to be used. It’s an abbreviation of Write to ALL, and it was first included in AT&T …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Peering Through the Wall, Apple’s GoFetch, and SHA-256
Everyone loves themes. Doesn’t matter if it’s a text editor or a smart display in the kitchen, we want to be able to easily customize its look and feel to …read more Continue reading User Beware: The Fine Line Between Content and Code
Here’s a fun thought experiment. UDP packets can be sent with an arbitrary source IP and port, so you can send a packet to one server, and could aim the …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Loop DOS, Flipper Responds, and More!
One of the simplest ways of keeping a computer system secure is by using an air gap — that is, never actually connecting the system to the network. This can …read more Continue reading Photoresistors Provide Air Gap Data Transfer, Slowly
OK, that headline is a bit of a cheap shot. But if you run the curl binary that Apple ships, you’re in for a surprise if you happen to use …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Apple Backdoors Curl, Tor’s New Bridge, and GhostRace