Security News

6 Ways Attackers Are Still Bypassing SMS 2-Factor Authentication
2019-04-24 12:31

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’ new trick for bypassing email URL filters
2019-02-20 11:51

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...

Patrick Wardle on Breaking and Bypassing MacOS Firewalls
2018-08-08 13:25

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

Bypassing Passcodes in iOS
2018-06-26 14:38

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...

Bypassing ASLR in 60 Milliseconds (Threatpost)
2016-10-20 14:31

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

Bypassing Intel's ASLR (Schneier on Security)
2016-10-19 19:19

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....

Malware devs scour GitHub for new ideas for bypassing Android security (Help Net Security)
2016-06-03 19:02

Android malware developers are misusing techniques unearthed in GitHub projects to bypass security measures introduced in the latest versions of the mobile OS. GitHub, the largest host of source...

Bypassing Phone Security through Social Engineering (Schneier on Security)
2016-04-07 11:39

This works: Khan was arrested in mid-July 2015. Undercover police officers posing as company managers arrived at his workplace and asked to check his driver and work records, according to the...