Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 20:34:00 +0000

The popular video meeting app makes it easy to keep the software up to date—but it also introduced vulnerabilities.

The US Offers a $10M Bounty for Intel on Conti Ransomware Gang

Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 18:09:27 +0000

The State Department organization has called for people to share details about five key members of the hacking group.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:28:34 +0000

The Zero Day Initiative has found a concerning uptick in security updates that fail to fix vulnerabilities.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 21:38:35 +0000

Before the flagship phone ever landed in users’ hands, the security team thoroughly hacked it by finding bugs and developing exploits.

Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 14:00:00 +0000

It cost a researcher only $25 worth of parts to create a tool that allows custom code to run on the satellite dishes.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 22:46:51 +0000

New research found troubling vulnerabilities in the 5G platforms carriers offer to wrangle embedded device data.

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 23:19:54 +0000

The popular Microsoft-owned code repository plans to roll out code signing, which will help beef up the security of open source projects.

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.