Thousands of electronic lockers found in gyms, offices, and schools could be vulnerable to attacks by criminals using cheap hacking tools to access administrator keys, according to new…
Read more Your Gym Locker May Be HackableIf you know where to look, plenty of secrets can be found online. Since the fall of 2021, independent security researcher Bill Demirkapi has been building ways to…
Read more Thousands of Corporate Secrets Were Left Exposed. This Guy Found Them AllThe night before Cecil’s Defcon talk, Maselewski wrote in a final email to WIRED that he believes those alleging that he cheated are using faulty tools with an…
Read more The Hacker Who Hunts Video Game Speedrunning CheatersIt’s probably been a while since anyone thought about Apple’s router and network storage combo called Time Capsule. Released in 2008 and discontinued in 2018, the product has…
Read more Apple Prototypes and Corporate Secrets Are for Sale Online—If You Know Where to LookDemand for graphics processing units or GPUs has exploded in recent years as video rendering and artificial intelligence systems have expanded the need for processing power. And while…
Read more Google Researchers Found Nearly a Dozen Flaws in Popular Qualcomm Software for Mobile GPUsThere is a grand tradition at the annual Defcon security conference in Las Vegas of hacking ATMs. Unlocking them with safecracking techniques, rigging them to steal users’ personal…
Read more Flaws in Ubiquitous ATM Software Could Have Let Attackers Take Over Cash MachinesSmith trawled Reddit and other online sources to find people reporting the scam and find URLs being used, which he subsequently published. Some of the websites running the…
Read more USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their OperationSince the early 1990s, people have used doxing as a toxic way to strike digital revenge—stripping away someone’s anonymity by unmasking their identity online. But in recent years,…
Read more Inside the Dark World of Doxing for ProfitNew research being presented at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas today shows that a vulnerability in Windows Update could be exploited to downgrade Windows to…
Read more A Flaw in Windows Update Opens the Door to Zombie Exploits“It’s not just that the water goes out, it’s that when the sole wastewater facility in your community is down really bad things start to happen. For example,…
Read more A New Plan to Break the Cycle of Destructive Critical Infrastructure Hacks
