In the decade Since hacker Barnaby Jack famously spray-painted an ATM on the stage at the 2010 Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, so-called jackpotting has become a popular criminal era, with heists netting tens of millions of dollars around the world. And over time, attackers have become increasingly …
Read More »More than a billion Android devices run the risk of data theft
A billion as more Android devices are vulnerable to hacks that could turn them into spy tools by exploiting more than 400 vulnerabilities in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip, researchers reported this week. ARS TECHNICA This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, …
Read More »Intel investigates how confidential data is online
There is also a folder dedicated to the Intel Management Engine, but its contents are also something that Intel integrators do not already know. They are test code and recommendations for when and how often to perform those automated tests when designing systems that include an Intel CPU with the …
Read More »Errors could have exposed crypto exchanges to hackers
Most people use it whether an app, an online platform, or a small hardware device as a wallet to store their cryptocurrency securely. The exchanges through which cryptocurrency changes hands, though, and other high-stakes operations are something more needed than a massive digital bank vault. At Black Hat’s security conference …
Read More »Hackers flooded reddit with takeovers of Pro-Trump
In what appears to be a massive coordinated strike against Reddit, hackers took over dozens of pages on Friday afternoon, using their access to plaster pro-Donald Trump images on subreddits with enormous imitation. Just over three weeks after hackers accessed high-profile Twitter accounts to tweet a bitcoin scam, the wave …
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