Serious Security: Understanding how computers count
The hard disks that fail abruptly at 32,768 hours of use – why simply ‘adding 1’ can send you into oblivion. ——– […]
Will the new iPhone 11 track you even if you tell it not to?
Does turning location access off for all your apps mean that location access is off altogether? ——– Free High Security Email from […]
Networking attack gives hijackers VPN access
Researchers have discovered a flaw in macOS, Linux, and several other operating systems that could let attackers hijack VPN connections. ——– Free […]
HackerOne pays $20,000 bounty after breach of own systems
In an embarrassing twist, bug bounty platform HackerOne has paid a $20,000 reward to a researcher who reported a security flaw inadvertently […]
Facebook suing ILikeAd for hijacking users’ ad accounts
Facebook says the company used celeb bait links to infect victims with malware and hijacked their ad accounts to sell diet pills. […]
$5m bounty set on the alleged head of Evil Corp banking Trojan group
Know where Maksim “Aqua” Yakubets is? Can you pry him out of Russia and his Lamborghinis? The biggest ever cybercrook reward awaits! […]
Monday review – the hot 22 stories of the week
Get up to date with the hot security stories from the past week – from fake Android apps to malware targeting Mac […]
Failure Modes in Machine Learning
Interesting taxonomy of machine-learning failures (pdf) that encompasses both mistakes and attacks, or — in their words — intentional and unintentional failure […]
Scientists Break Largest Encryption Key Yet with Brute Force
The key, only one-third the length of most commercial encryption keys, took more than 35 million compute hours to break. ——– Free […]
Microsoft ‘Campaign Views’ Offers Full Look at Office 365 Attacks
Campaign views, arriving in public preview, aims to share more context around how attackers targeted an organization and whether its defenses worked. […]