Security News

Connected homes and new hacking risks (Help Net Security)
2017-01-27 12:45

Eight out of ten US consumers have a home data network and more than a third of them connect entertainment systems, gaming consoles and other smart devices to the Internet, increasing the risk of...

Shadow Brokers say goodbye, leak a batch of Windows hacking tools (Help Net Security)
2017-01-13 17:07

The Shadow Brokers, a group (?) of hackers that has made a big splash in August last year by leaking and offering for sale exploits supposedly stolen from the infamous Equation Group, has decided...

Auditing Elections for Signs of Hacking (Schneier on Security)
2016-12-02 12:39

Excellent essay pointing out that election security is a national security issue, and that we need to perform random ballot audits on every future election: The good news is that we know how to...

Rule 41 Opponents Vow to Fight Government’s New Hacking Powers (Threatpost)
2016-12-01 20:17

Opponents of the controversial Rule 41 say they are committed to fighting the government’s expanded powers.

Hacking and the 2016 Presidential Election (Schneier on Security)
2016-11-25 16:00

Was the 2016 presidential election hacked? It's hard to tell. There were no obvious hacks on Election Day, but new reports have raised the question of whether voting machines were tampered with in...

Hacking Password-Protected Computers via the USB Port (Schneier on Security)
2016-11-17 14:22

PoisonTap is an impressive hacking tool that can compromise computers via the USB port, even when they are password protected. What's interesting is the chain of vulnerabilities the tool exploits....

Ultrasonic Hacking (Schneier on Security)
2016-11-10 18:19

Ad networks are surreptitiously using ultrasonic communications to jump from device to device. It should come as no surprise that this communications channel can be used to hack devices as well....