Thousands of Corporate Secrets Were Left Exposed. This Guy Found Them All
If you know where to look, plenty of secrets can be found online. Since the fall of 2021, independent security researcher Bill […]
Tag: Security
The Hacker Who Hunts Video Game Speedrunning Cheaters
The night before Cecil’s Defcon talk, Maselewski wrote in a final email to WIRED that he believes those alleging that he cheated […]
Apple Prototypes and Corporate Secrets Are for Sale Online—If You Know Where to Look
It’s probably been a while since anyone thought about Apple’s router and network storage combo called Time Capsule. Released in 2008 and […]
Google Researchers Found Nearly a Dozen Flaws in Popular Qualcomm Software for Mobile GPUs
Demand for graphics processing units or GPUs has exploded in recent years as video rendering and artificial intelligence systems have expanded the […]
ATM Software Flaws Left Piles of Cash for Anyone Who Knew to Look
There is a grand tradition at the annual Defcon security conference in Las Vegas of hacking ATMs. Unlocking them with safecracking techniques, […]
‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections
In a background statement to WIRED, AMD emphasized the difficulty of exploiting Sinkclose: To take advantage of the vulnerability, a hacker has […]
How Hackers Extracted the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ to Clone HID Keycards
Finally, HID says that “to its knowledge,” none of its encoder keys have leaked or been distributed publicly, and “none of these […]
Computer Crash Reports Are an Untapped Hacker Gold Mine
When a bad software update from the security firm CrowdStrike inadvertently caused digital chaos around the world last month, the first signs […]
Tricky Web Timing Attacks Are Getting Easier to Use—and Abuse
Researchers have long known that they can glean hidden information about the inner workings of a website by measuring the amount of […]
Microsoft’s AI Can Be Turned Into an Automated Phishing Machine
Among the other attacks created by Bargury is a demonstration of how a hacker—who, again, must already have hijacked an email account—can […]