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 →
Recently members of the Fidus team noticed an interesting blog post on the OnePlus forum by an individual discussing recent fraudulent attempts made on two of their credit cards. The forum userRead More →
Oculus enables users to connect their Facebook accounts for a more “social” experience. This can be done using both the native Windows Oculus application and using browsers. I took aRead More →
This is a brief walk-through tutorial that illustrates how to crack Wi-Fi networks that are secured using weak passwords. It is not exhaustive, but it should be enough information forRead More →
The Meltdown and Spectre bugs have generated a lot of media attention, and users have been urged to update their machines with fixes made available by various vendors. While some patches have createdRead More →
Security researchers have revealed details of a vulnerability in WhatsApp’s security that could be used to compromise the secrecy of encrypted group chats on the messaging platform. The risk associatedRead More →
Connecticut man hacked more than 250 people.Connecticut-based George Garofano has agreed to plead guilty to charges of hacking more than 250 Apple iCloud accounts, including many that belonged to celebritiesRead More →
2018 is barely two weeks old, and already it looks like we’ve got new piece of macOS malware! Hooray 🙂 Want to play along? I’ve shared both the malware’s binaryRead More →
The vulnerability fiasco continues for Intel with new bug. As if the Meltdown and Spectre bugs weren’t enough trouble for Intel already, security researcher Harry Sintonen working for Finnish company F-SecureRead More →
