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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 21:30:00 +0000

Allan “dwangoAC” has made it his mission to expose speedrunning phonies. At the Defcon hacker conference, he’ll challenge one record that’s stood for 15 years.

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August 10, 2024 admin

Apple Prototypes and Corporate Secrets Are for Sale Online—If You Know Where to Look

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 19:35:00 +0000

On the hunt for corporate devices being sold secondhand, a researcher found a trove of Apple corporate data, a Mac Mini from the Foxconn assembly line, an iPhone 14 prototype, and more.

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Google Researchers Found Nearly a Dozen Flaws in Popular Qualcomm Software for Mobile GPUs

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 22:55:57 +0000

The vulnerabilities, which have been patched, may have novel appeal to attackers as an avenue to compromising phones.

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August 9, 2024 admin

ATM Software Flaws Left Piles of Cash for Anyone Who Knew to Look

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 18:37:12 +0000

Six vulnerabilities in ATM-maker Diebold Nixdorf’s popular Vynamic Security Suite could have been exploited to control ATMs using “relatively simplistic attacks.”

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August 9, 2024 admin

Flaws in Ubiquitous ATM Software Could Have Let Attackers Take Over Cash Machines

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 18:37:12 +0000

Six vulnerabilities in ATM-maker Diebold Nixdorf’s popular Vynamic Security Suite could have been exploited to control ATMs using “relatively simplistic attacks.”

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August 9, 2024 admin

‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Researchers warn that a bug in AMD’s chips would allow attackers to root into some of the most privileged portions of a computer—and that it has persisted in the company’s processors for decades.

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August 9, 2024 admin

How Hackers Extracted the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ to Clone HID Keycards

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0000

A team of researchers have developed a method for extracting authentication keys out of HID encoders, which could allow hackers to clone the types of keycards used to secure offices and other areas worldwide.

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August 9, 2024 admin

Computer Crash Reports Are an Untapped Hacker Gold Mine

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 23:22:16 +0000

One hacker solved the CrowdStrike outage mystery with simple crash reports, illustrating the wealth of detail about potential bugs and vulnerabilities those key documents hold.