Security News

Researchers claim Chrome bug bounty paid to the wrong people
2018-06-19 12:42

Yubico has been drawn into a rare public spat over how the discovery of a security flaw affecting it products was credited.

Inside the Legislative and Regulatory Minefield Confronting Cybersecurity Researchers
2018-06-19 12:01

Legislation – especially complex legislation – often comes with unintended consequences. The EU’s General Data protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force May 25, 2018, is an example of...

Pwned with '4 lines of code': Researchers warn SCADA systems are still hopelessly insecure
2018-06-18 09:43

How Shamoon and Stuxnet et al ran riot BSides Industrial control systems could be exposed not just to remote hackers, but to local attacks and physical manipulation as well.…

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.…