Category: Cyber Security
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“God Mode” Backdoor
Some x86 CPUs have hidden backdoors that let you seize root by sending a command to an undocumented RISC core […]
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How a 22-Year-Old Discovered the Worst Chip Flaws in History
In 2013, a teenager named Jann Horn attended a reception in Berlin hosted by Chancellor Angela Merkel. He and 64 […]
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Charting Hacker Hangouts From BBS To Slack
Where have all the grey hat hacker forums gone? Grey hats were always a valuable part of the hacker community. […]
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‘The nail in the coffin’: Russia’s top cyber-firm may have made a ‘catastrophic’ mistake
Investigators believe that software from Russia’s top cybersecurity firm, Kaspersky Lab, was involved in a theft of top secret National Security Agency intelligence […]
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New Evidence Links a 20-Year-Old Hack on the US Government to a Modern Attack Group
The artifacts they found on Hedges’ server provide an interesting look at the group’s early operations, showing how they improved […]
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BitWhisper: Stealing data from non-networked computers using heat
No matter how secure you think a computer is, there’s always a vulnerability somewhere that a remote attacker can utilize […]
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DARPA to hunt for space and time vulnerabilities of software algorithms
In the endless chess game of cybersecurity, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to thinks a few moves ahead, […]
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Heartbleed Bug SSL Vulnerability – Everything You Need To Know
So the Internet has been exploding this week due to the Heartbleed Bug in OpenSSL which effects a LOT of […]
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Surveillance by Algorithm
Increasingly, we are watched not by people but by algorithms. Amazon and Netflix track the books we buy and the […]
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State Department Announces New Stance on Encryption and Surveillance
Deputy Assistant Secretary Scott Busby acknowledged “support for encryption protocols,” which are “critical for an Internet that that is truly […]