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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....

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...

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...

Clever man-in-the-middle attack....