Security News

PGP Ecosystem Targeted in ‘Poisoning’ Attacks
2019-07-05 17:05

Two researchers are being singled out in what are called PGP poisoning or flood attacks that render the authentication tool unusable for victims.

OpenPGP experts targeted by long-feared ‘poisoning’ attack
2019-07-05 11:43

Somebody out there has taken a big dislike to Robert J. Hansen (‘rjh’) and Daniel Kahn Gillmor (‘dkg’), two well-regarded experts in the specialised world of OpenPGP email encryption.

StatCounter fingers cache-poisoning caper for Bitcoin-slurping JavaScript hijack
2018-11-08 04:52

The good news? Nobody appears to have lost any Bitcoin, says Gate.io This week's hijacking of StatCounter's JavaScript to swipe Bitcoins from a crypto-coin exchange was the result of a web cache...

Web cache poisoning just got real
2018-08-17 16:05

Cache me outside, how 'bout dah? BSides Manchester Websites can be compromised to turn their caches into exploit delivery systems.…

Britain Says Russia Spied on Skripals Before Poisoning
2018-04-13 13:15

Russia was spying on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia for at least five years before they were poisoned with a nerve agent, Britain's National Security Adviser Mark...

Wayz Data Poisoning (Schneier on Security)
2016-06-09 11:17

People who don't want Wayz routing cars through their neighborhoods are feeding it false data. It was here that Connor learned that some Waze warriors had launched concerted campaigns to fool the...