DEF CON 2018: Apple 0-Day (Re)Opens Door to ‘Synthetic’ Mouse-Click Attack
Apple 0-Day allows hackers to mimic mouse-clicks for kernel access, despite mitigations.
Apple 0-Day allows hackers to mimic mouse-clicks for kernel access, despite mitigations.
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When Mark Zuckerberg’s annual challenge was learning Mandarin, it was still fun and games. Now that his 2018 goal is simply “fixing Facebook,” not so much. It’s fair to say 2018 has been a horrible year for the social network. With its infiltration by Russian operatives, the Cambridge Analytica scandal, concerns about users’ psychological wellbeing,…
DarkHydrus uses the open-source Phishery tool to create two of the known Word documents used in the attacks.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
We absorb new information. We push to advance our careers. We strive to store every useful detail we can jam into our overstuffed brains. But as technology and our frantic world rev up the pace of learning and personal growth, it’s easy to overlook our physical health and mental wellness. Some of the most brilliant…
Reverse engineering the Toshiba FlashAir SD storage card allowed a researcher to execute remote code – and could’ve allowed him to add other malicious or practical features.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
Let’s get the fish in the barrel out of the way. Voatz are a tech startup whose bright idea was to disrupt democracy by having people vote on their phone, and store the votes on, you guessed it, a blockchain. Does this sound like a bad idea? Welp. It turned out that they seemed awfully…
This time last year, I visited a bustling cafe in downtown Salt Lake City. I had never been there before, so I decided to go all out — breakfast and a cinnamon roll— Carb City. After finishing my meal, I went to pay my bill, but there was a problem: I couldn’t get my server’s attention. After…
LAS VEGAS – In recent years there has been more attention paid to the security of medical devices; however, there has been little security research done on the unique protocols used by these devices. Many of the insulin pumps, heart monitors and other gadgets found in hospital rooms use aging protocol to communicate with nurses’…
There is a secret behind every open office in Silicon Valley — and it isn’t the drain on productivity. Tech companies have been the vanguards for pushing corporate culture forward toward “radical transparency.” Mark Zuckerberg works in a fully transparent four-walled glass office surrounded by the rest of Facebook. Valve got rid of managers and…