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 →
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 →
Cloudflare is a service that acts as a middleman between a website and its end users, protecting it from various attacks. Unfortunately, those websites are often poorly configured, allowing anRead More →
The company put a hold on payments through its site after fraud reports emerged. OnePlus has confirmed that its systems have been breached, following reports of credit card fraud from customersRead More →
What you don’t see won’t hurt you, must have been the reasoning of the threat actors who created the latest batch of extensions that make these browser hijackers even more difficult toRead More →
Zyklon is a publicly available, full-featured backdoor capable of keylogging, password harvesting, downloading and executing additional plugins, conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and self-updating and self-removal. The malware may communicateRead More →
When I began Year 11 in 2016 and was asked to buy a CASIO fx-CP400 graphics calculator, the hacker part of my brain immediately started wondering what mischief I couldRead More →
Google removes four extensions that used infected computers in click fraud scheme. Researchers have uncovered four malicious extensions with more than 500,000 combined downloads from the Google Chrome Web Store,Read More →
Canadian authorities have arrested and charged a 27-year-old Ontario man for allegedly selling billions of stolen passwords online through the now-defunct service Leakedsource.com. On Dec. 22, 2017, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)Read More →
“Low complexity” hack for Transmission client may work against other clients, too. There’s a critical weakness in the widely used Transmission BitTorrent app that allows websites to execute malicious code on someRead More →
