Another day, another cryptocurrency exchange under cyber attack – This time Coincheck, Japanese cryptocurrency exchange has been hacked and lost $534 million in NEM tokens. One of Japan’s and Asia’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has sufferedRead More →
At the recent Black Hat Europe conference, Positive Technologies researchers Mark Ermolov and Maxim Goryachy spoke about the vulnerability in Intel Management Engine 11, which opens up access to most ofRead More →
I’m on a plane again…this time flying home from one of my favorite hacker cons: ShmooCon! I was stoked to give a talk about auditing on macOS. Yah, I know that doesn’tRead More →
Ad campaign lets attackers profit while unwitting users watch videos. YouTube was recently caught displaying ads that covertly leach off visitors’ CPUs and electricity to generate digital currency on behalfRead More →
Fixing the chip security holes Meltdown and Spectre will take a long, long time, but Linus Torvalds and Intel developers are slowly moving to answers for Linux. Spectre and MeltdownRead More →
A study into the security of hardware license tokens. In the past years, the problem of vulnerabilities in industrial automation systems has been becoming increasingly important. The fact that industrial controlRead More →
Just five days before a three-year old Bitcoin puzzle was set to expire, a PhD student cracked the code. A three-year old Bitcoin mystery came to an end last weekRead More →
Electron, a popular web application writing platform underlying some extremely widespread software including Skype and Slack, is vulnerable to a critical remote code execution vulnerability. Apps are only vulnerable if they run onRead More →
Forced redirects from Zirconium group push phony malware and fake Flash updates. Last year brought a surge of sketchy online ads to the Internet that tried to trick viewers intoRead More →
MOTIVATION Soon after releasing the build for the Budget Cracking Rig, I received a lot of community feedback. Most feedback circled around one main issue: Cost. Reality is that not many smallRead More →
