Reverse-Engineering iOS Apps: Hacking on Lyft
2015-09-08
If you’ve ever needed to know how another piece of code works, or have been at the mercy of someone else’s bugs, you can always look at the source code…Read More →
Ashley Madison Hack Latest Reminder Stupid Passwords Are Stupid
2015-09-07
The recent hack of fembot dating extramarital affairs website Ashley Madison, which resulted in data from millions of accounts being dumped online, has one more salutary yet familiar lesson to deliver: even very well encryptedRead More →
Self-Driving Cars Are Hackable
2015-09-07
Jonathan Petit, security researcher at Security Innovation, Inc., has revealed he can easily fool the LiDAR sensors on any self-driving car to slow down or abruptly stop by sending itRead More →
Coder pleads guilty to writing Gozi banking trojan
2015-09-07
A man credited with helping to create the infamous Gozi banking malware has pled guilty in a US court. Deniss Calovskis, 30, of Latvia was arrested November 2012 and spentRead More →
‘UNSW is drunk’: Facebook page gets hacked on university’s Open Day
2015-09-05
UNSW staff had to scramble to contain an embarrassing outbreak of undergraduate humour, after the university’s Facebook page was hacked on its annual open day. As the university prepared to showcaseRead More →
Detecting an asymmetric Curve25519 backdoor in RSA key generation algorithms
2015-09-05
While working on some forthcoming research on cryptographic backdoors i came across an interesting asymmetric backdoor designed to subvert RSA key generation algorithms by Ryan Castellucci. The backdoor is particularlyRead More →
24 Chinese Android Smartphones Models Come With Pre-Installed Malware
2015-09-04
G DATA security experts published their latest research in which they’ve analyzed top Chinese Android smartphone models and found that a large number of them ship with pre-installed malware andRead More →
Chrysler Catches Flak for Patching Hack Via Mailed USB
2015-09-04
Six weeks after hackers revealed vulnerabilities in a 2014 Jeep Cherokee that they could use to take over its transmission and brakes, Chrysler has pushed out its patch for thatRead More →
New Android Ransomware Communicates over XMPP
2015-09-04
A new strain of Android ransomware disguised as a video player app uses a means of communication unseen in other similar malware. Most of the victims are in the UnitedRead More →
Sony Pictures reaches settlement with ex-employees over hacking
2015-09-03
The hack revealed the inner workings of the studio, as well as the personal information of more than 47,000 celebrities, freelancers, and current and former Sony employees. Sony Pictures hasRead More →
