How a 10-Year-Old Desk Phone Bug Came Back From the Dead
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 20:14:54 +0000
Avaya patched a problem hackers could exploit in phones. But the bad code never went away.
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Hidden Algorithm Flaws Expose Websites to DoS Attacks
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 18:26:42 +0000
Why throw a bunch of junk traffic at a service when all it takes to stall it out is just a few bytes?
Read MoreHackers Can Break Into an iPhone Just by Sending a Text
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 21:07:26 +0000
You don’t even have to click anything.
Read MoreHow AT&T Insiders Were Bribed to ‘Unlock’ Millions of Phones
Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 20:51:25 +0000
One cybersecurity threat that’s proven difficult for wireless carriers to combat? Their own employees.
Read MoreA Boeing Code Leak Exposes Security Flaws Deep in a 787’s Guts
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 19:29:03 +0000
One researcher’s discovery suggests troubling oversights in Boeing’s cybersecurity.
Read More13-Year-Old Encryption Bugs Still Haunt Apps and IoT
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 18:42:24 +0000
RSA encryption has been around for decades. Unfortunately, so have bad implementations that leave it less secure.
Read MoreThe Weird, Dark History of 8chan and Its Founder Fredrick Brennan
Credit to Author: Timothy McLaughlin| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 22:00:23 +0000
Fredrick Brennan is appalled by the notorious chat site’s links to right-wing extremism and mass shootings. Inside his tortured journey through the web’s cesspool and his attempt at redemption.
Read MoreA Model Hospital Where the Devices Get Hacked—on Purpose
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 16:46:39 +0000
At this year’s Defcon Medical Device Village, hackers will attack real medical devices at a pretend hospital.
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