Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks – Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Plus: A crypto-heist extravaganza, a peek at an NSO spyware dashboard, and more.

A Slack Bug Exposed Some Users’ Hashed Passwords for 5 Years

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2022 22:09:22 +0000

The exposure of cryptographically scrambled passwords isn’t a worst-case scenario—but it isn’t great, either.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 21:30:27 +0000

A Tehran-linked hack of a NATO member marks a significant escalation against the backdrop of US-Iran nuclear talks.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2022 16:43:50 +0000

What’s it like to be responsible for a billion people’s digital security? Just ask the company’s Morse researchers.

Credit to Author: Dan Goodin, Ars Technica| Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0000

SIKE was a contender for post-quantum-computing encryption. It took researchers an hour and a single PC to break it.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Plus: The FCC cracks down on car warranty robocalls, Thai activists get targeted by NSO’s Pegasus, and the Russia-Ukraine cyberwar continues.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 14:52:03 +0000

While cybersecurity and foreign meddling remain priorities, domestic threats against election workers have risen to the top of the list.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:40:13 +0000

Despite alerting Meta months ago, feminist groups say tens of thousands of fake accounts continue to bombard them on the platform.