Your Gym Locker May Be Hackable
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 17:59:59 +0000
Security researchers say they’ve extracted digital management keys from select electronic lockers and revealed how they could be cloned.
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Want to Win a Bike Race? Hack Your Rival’s Wireless Shifters
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Please don’t, actually. But do update your Shimano Di2 shifters’ software to prevent a new radio-based form of cycling sabotage.
Read moreThousands of Corporate Secrets Were Left Exposed. This Guy Found Them All
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 23:00:00 +0000
Security researcher Bill Demirkapi found more than 15,000 hardcoded secrets and 66,000 vulnerable websites—all by searching overlooked data sources.
Read moreGoogle Researchers Found Nearly a Dozen Flaws in Popular Qualcomm Software for Mobile GPUs
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 22:55:57 +0000
The vulnerabilities, which have been patched, may have novel appeal to attackers as an avenue to compromising phones.
Read moreATM Software Flaws Left Piles of Cash for Anyone Who Knew to Look
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 18:37:12 +0000
Six vulnerabilities in ATM-maker Diebold Nixdorf’s popular Vynamic Security Suite could have been exploited to control ATMs using “relatively simplistic attacks.”
Read more‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000
Researchers warn that a bug in AMD’s chips would allow attackers to root into some of the most privileged portions of a computer—and that it has persisted in the company’s processors for decades.
Read moreHow Hackers Extracted the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ to Clone HID Keycards
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2024 11:00:00 +0000
A team of researchers have developed a method for extracting authentication keys out of HID encoders, which could allow hackers to clone the types of keycards used to secure offices and other areas worldwide.
Read moreComputer Crash Reports Are an Untapped Hacker Gold Mine
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 23:22:16 +0000
One hacker solved the CrowdStrike outage mystery with simple crash reports, illustrating the wealth of detail about potential bugs and vulnerabilities those key documents hold.
Read moreTricky Web Timing Attacks Are Getting Easier to Use—and Abuse
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 21:19:16 +0000
New research shows how known techniques for finding weaknesses in websites are actually practical in uncovering vulnerabilities, for better or worse.
Read moreMicrosoft’s AI Can Be Turned Into an Automated Phishing Machine
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2024 18:20:00 +0000
Attacks on Microsoft’s Copilot AI allow for answers to be manipulated, data extracted, and security protections bypassed, new research shows.
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