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Threat Actors Using Social Engineering, Other Technical Techniques to Circumvent MFA ProtectionsThe FBI is warning banks, businesses and other organizations that cybercriminals are using social...

Apple's FaceID has a liveness detection feature, which prevents someone from unlocking a victim's phone by putting it in front of his face while he's sleeping. That feature has been hacked:...

1992 was both an ending and a beginning. It was the year I lost my beloved grandfather, and I’ll never forget his final words to me: “Stop shaking the ladder, you idiot!” Shortly after his...

Phishers have come up with another trick to make Office documents carrying malicious links undetectable by many e-mail security services: they delete the links from the document’s relationship...

Here's the latest Naked Security podcast - enjoy!

A Black Hat talk demonstrates the ease of poking holes in firewalls: How to break, bypass and dismantle macOS firewall products.

Last week, a story was going around explaining how to brute-force an iOS password. Basically, the trick was to plug the phone into an external keyboard and trying every PIN at once: We reported...

An academic paper demonstrates a new ASLR bypass executed through a side-channel attack against the branch target buffer in an Intel Haswell CPU.

Researchers discover a clever attack that bypasses the address space layout randomization (ALSR) on Intel's CPUs. Here's the paper. It discusses several possible mitigation techniques....