Security News

Researcher hacks smart fingerprint padlock in mere seconds
2018-06-14 12:48

The Tapplock one “smart” padlock, which received many rave reviews by tech-focused news sites and YouTubers, can be forced to open in under two seconds with a smartphone. The discovery was made by...

Researcher Finds Credentials for 92 Million Users of DNA Testing Firm MyHeritage
2018-06-05 19:50

MyHeritage, an Israeli-based genealogy and DNA testing company, disclosed today that a security researcher found on the Internet a file containing the email addresses and hashed passwords of more...

Researchers Warn of Microsoft Zero-Day RCE Bug
2018-06-01 21:24

A Microsoft Windows vulnerability enables remote attackers to execute arbitrary code – and there’s no patch yet.

Encryption of AMD EPYC VMs can be broken, researchers prove
2018-05-29 17:54

AMD EPYC server chipsets are supposed to provide a high level of security, but a German team has managed to gain control through a hypervisor exploit.

Researchers Defeat AMD's SEV Virtual Machine Encryption
2018-05-28 08:48

German security researchers claim to have found a new practical attack against virtual machines (VMs) protected using AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology that could allow...

Researchers crack open AMD's server VM encryption
2018-05-25 19:45

SEV attack would let hypervisors lift memory contents A group of German researchers have devised a method to thwart the VM security in AMD's server chips.…

Millions of IoT Devices Vulnerable to Z-Wave Downgrade Attacks, Researchers Claim
2018-05-25 19:27

Millions of IoT devices based on the Z-Wave wireless protocol are vulnerable to a downgrade attack during pairing sessions.

Electron patched the patch after researcher broke the patch
2018-05-25 02:55

January's fix had blacklist flaw, now fixed In an update last week, the developers of the Electron shipped a patch to their January patch, and now, an infosec researcher has explained why.…

Researchers unearth a huge botnet army of 500,000 hacked routers
2018-05-23 16:03

More than half a million routers and storage devices in dozens of countries have been infected with a piece of highly sophisticated IoT botnet malware, likely designed by Russia-baked...