How Apple Pay Buttons Can Make Websites Less Safe
Apple Pay has a slew of protective features that make it a secure method of online credit card transactions. And since 2016, […]
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Apple Gives Hackers a Special iPhone—And a Bigger Bug Bounty
For more than a decade, Apple has built a fortress around the iPhone, making iOS devices arguably the most locked-down computers accessible […]
How a 10-Year-Old Desk Phone Bug Came Back From the Dead
You probably know by now about rampant insecurity in Internet of Things devices. You’ve likely even heard about vulnerabilities in desk phones […]
Hidden Algorithm Flaws Expose Websites to DoS Attacks
This week, the notorious 8chan went down after its infrastructure provider Cloudflare withdrew services over the forum’s radical, violence-promoting content. Cloudflare didn’t […]
Navigating the Mayhem of Bot Management
Bots touch virtually every part of our digital lives — and now account for over half of all web traffic. This represents […]
Hackers Can Break Into an iPhone Just by Sending a Text
When you think about how hackers could break into your smartphone, you probably imagine it would start with clicking a malicious link […]
How AT&T Insiders Were Bribed to ‘Unlock’ Millions of Phones
A dramatic saga that began with a civil lawsuit between AT&T and former employees has resulted in a high-profile arrest. Muhammad Fahd, […]
A Boeing Code Leak Exposes Security Flaws Deep in a 787’s Guts
Late one night last September, security researcher Ruben Santamarta sat in his home office in Madrid and partook in some creative googling, […]
13-Year-Old Encryption Bugs Still Haunt Apps and IoT
Hackers try to find novel ways to circumvent or undermine data encryption schemes all the time. But at the Black Hat security […]
Good Bots Vs. Bad Bots: What’s The Impact On Your Business?
Roughly half of today’s internet traffic is non-human (i.e., generated by bots). While some are good—like those that crawl websites for web […]