Javascript Leads to Browser Hijacking
2016-10-10
I came across this nasty-looking script that hijacks your browser. It appears to have been around in some shape or form since 2014 but this latest version deploys an aggressiveRead More →
Reversing and Exploiting Embedded Devices (Walking the software and hardware stack)
2016-10-08
As technology matures and microprocessors are becoming cheap we are starting to see a trend of products that are now ?smart.? The problem is that once we discover how theseRead More →
Students Hacked a Chip to Give Your Smartphone a Sense of Touch
2016-10-07
Project Soli, which debuted at Google I/O in 2015, is a tiny chip that uses radar to detect discreet hand and finger motions. It was designed as a unique wayRead More →
Explained: WMI hijackers
2016-10-06
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) hijackers are proving to be a plague to remove for the average user. Even experienced users may be stumped if they run into one and don’tRead More →
The Oracle of Delphi Will Steal Your Credentials
2016-10-06
It was one of those warm summer nights, no clouds, just a bright full moon lighting the way. Someone had unknowingly stumbled upon our honeypot, completely unaware of the factRead More →
No-one wants to buy the Shadow Brokers’ stolen NSA tools
2016-10-04
The Shadow Brokers – the hacker group who claimed to have stolen a large cache of National Security Agency (NSA) hacking tools – is disappointed to find that it’s theRead More →
Remember 68 Million Hacked Dropbox Data? It’s available for free download
2016-10-04
The online storage platform Dropbox suffered a massive blow back in August when the company learned that over 60 million of its user accounts got hacked and credentials stolen byRead More →
OpenJPEG zero-day flaw leads to remote code execution
2016-10-03
The newly-discovered bug gives attackers the chance to execute code through the open-source JPEG 2000 codec. Cisco Talos researchers have uncovered a severe zero-day flaw in the OpenJPEG JPEG 2000Read More →
Space Wars Will Be Fought With Hacks, Not Missiles
2016-10-03
On Monday morning, a number of professionals in the aerospace industry received a rather mundane email containing a PDF ostensibly about the future of Russian aerospace programs, but which actuallyRead More →
Hacking PayPal’s Express Checkout
2016-10-01
Recent research on web security and related topics. Provided and maintained by members and friends of the Chair for Network and Data Security, Horst Görtz Institute, Ruhr-University Bochum. Do youRead More →
