Powerful Spyware Exploits Enable a New String of 'Watering Hole' Attacks
In recent years, elite commercial spyware vendors like Intellexa and NSO Group have developed an array of powerful hacking tools that exploit rare a…
Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks
Thousands of Corporate Secrets Were Left Exposed. This Guy Found Them All
If you know where to look, plenty of secrets can be found online . Since the fall of 2021, independent security researcher Bill Demirkapi has been …
‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections
Security flaws in your computer’s firmware, the deep-seated code that loads first when you turn the machine on and controls even how its operatin…
Google Researchers Found Nearly a Dozen Flaws in Popular Qualcomm Software for Mobile GPUs
Demand for graphics processing units or GPUs has exploded in recent years as video rendering and artificial intelligence systems have expanded the…
How Project 2025 Would Put US Elections at Risk
If anything, the military has impinged on CISA’s territory—not the other way around—out of exasperation with the civilian agency’s constrained resou…
How Russia-Linked Malware Cut Heat to 600 Ukrainian Buildings in Deep Winter
As Russia has tested every form of attack on Ukraine’s civilians over the past decade, both digital and physical, it’s often used winter as one …
Don’t Fall for CrowdStrike Outage Scams
The security firm CrowdStrike inadvertently caused mayhem around the world on Friday after deploying a faulty software update to the company’s Fal…
The Sweeping Danger of the AT&T Phone Records Breach
From targeted wiretaps to bulk surveillance dragnets, phone companies have been at the center of privacy concerns for decades—and their time in the…