Security News

Boffins: Mixed-signal silicon can SCREAM your secrets to all
2018-07-27 01:01

'Screaming Channels', a side-channel baked into off-the-shelf Wi-Fi, Bluetooth silicon Side-channel radio attacks just got a whole lot worse: a group of researchers from Eurocom's Software and...

Insecure web still too prevalent: Boffins unveil HSTS wall of shame
2018-07-24 11:38

Red flags: Hunt and Helme pick out sites that can load without crypto How's that migration to "HTTPS everywhere" going? With some Chrome browsers* now flagging insecure sites, there's a lot of...

Who watches Sony's watcher? Boffins poke holes in surveillance kit
2018-07-23 15:23

Command injection and stack buffer overflow flaws bedevil cam range Security researchers at Cisco Talos have found two serious flaws with Sony's network-facing surveillance kit, the IPELA E Series...

Boffins want to stop Network Time Protocol's time-travelling exploits
2018-07-02 06:01

Ancient protocol's key vulnerability is fixable Among the many problems that exist in the venerable Network Time Protocol is its vulnerability to timing attacks: turning servers into...

Boffins offer to make speculative execution great again with Spectre-Meltdown CPU fix
2018-06-16 01:09

Good thing too because Intel's planned chip changes may break Google's Retpoline A group of computer science researchers has proposed a way to overcome the security risk posed by speculative...

Youth crime is way down and boffins think tech might be the reason
2018-06-12 01:59

Australian criminologists suggest Grand Theft Auto is more fun and less risky than stealing a real car Crime rates in the Australian State of New South Wales have dropped markedly in recent years...

'Tesco probably knows more about me than GCHQ': Infosec boffins talk surveillance capitalism
2018-06-04 10:11

Cambridge Uni powwow broods on Facebook, Wannacry Privacy of medical data and the machinations of surveillance capitalism were under the spotlight at a Cambridge University symposium last week.…

Epyc fail? We can defeat AMD's virtual machine encryption, say boffins
2018-05-25 19:45

Evil hypervisors can lift plain-text info out of ciphered memory, it is claimed German researchers have devised a method to thwart the security mechanisms AMD's Epyc server chips use to...

Mirai botnet cost you $13.50 per infected thing, say boffins
2018-05-09 02:31

Researchers infected devices and totted up all the 'leccy and bandwidth they used Berkeley boffins reckon the Dyn-based Internet of Things attack that took down Brian Krebs' Website in 2016 cost...

Lakes on the moon? Boffins think they've found the evidence
2018-05-04 07:33

Watery remains of meteorites could be trapped in craters A team of physicists have uncovered evidence that the Moon may have had liquid water on its surface at one point.…