Red Canary Blows The Whistle On Silver Sparrow
A new mysterious piece of malware has been found sitting on tens of thousands of Macs, which for the moment seems happy just to exist as it is not doing anything at…
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Tag: Security
Those Cute Little Favicons Always Did Seem Pretty Sus
Move over LSOs and get out of the way super cookies, there's a new way to track people's movement on the internet that works on just about every browser. It's those cute…
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Announcing The Supermicro Spy Chip Sequel
If you had thought that the story about the mysterious and possibly invisible spy chip Bloomberg reported on a couple of years back would peter out after they failed to present much…
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Apple’s Silent Blastdoor
Apple has been very successful convincing people about the security of iOS by not saying a thing about it. Those of us who follow tech media are usually quite aware of the…
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Corrupting NTFS With A Single Shortcut
Starting with Windows 10 1803 and continuing to this day is a simple and rather uncouth trick to corrupt a NTFS disk and prompt a reboot, which may not successfully launch. It…
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Update Your GeForce Drivers Now … Not For The FPS But For The Security
These new WHQL drivers don't have much in the way of performance updates but do not let that convince you to skip this one and wait for the next one. Instead, you…
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SolarWinds Is Sorry To Sunburst Your Bubble
There is a lot of news about SUNBURST, the Solarwinds hack which has ruined the holiday season of many a system administrator, and it seems there several other interesting things about this…
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Qualcomm and Google’s Three Years Of Android Updates
Qualcomm and Google hit the headlines with an announcement that they will now "support 4 Android OS versions and 4 years of security updates." This is certainly not a bad...
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You And I And UEFI Vulnerabilities
Recent security research has revealed that someone is teaching Trickbot new tricks, and this one is right nasty. Trickbot started out as a minor villain, a trojan that enabled nefarious...
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It’s Brave To Take On CNAME
There is an eternal war on the internet (no, not that one) between users who value the privacy of their metadata and browsing habits and advertisers that want to collect as much…
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Bad News At Boot; HDD And UEFI Hacks
Infecting the UEFI on a motherboard is no small task thankfully, as you need physical access to hack the flash chip on the motherboard to implement a hack, there is no known…
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Huawei Says No Way They Knew About Those Backdoors
Remember last year when the news was abuzz with stories about a magical chip hidden on SuperMicro boards which turned out to be almost completely bunk, but did remind us...
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Sigh, Even Copy And Paste Is Out To Get You
The fact that we can't have nice things is not new, it's just that there are more types of devices and components on the market to find flaws with. As Hackaday…
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Smart Fridge Security Has An Expiry Date Too
The report that The Register referenced in their article came from a UK consumer advocacy group by the name of Which?, but sadly their findings will apply across the...
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The Trials And Tribulations Of Open Source Software Development
There are two stories today looking at open source software and small developers trying to get their apps to run on Windows that are related but probably not cause and effect. RiskSense…
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Topple The Network Stack And Do It Huawei?
There is something overlooked in the ongoing discussions of Huawei and the roll out out of 5G that makes the current stances of various governments somewhat confusing for network techs. The fact…
Read MorePC Perspective Podcast #586 – NVIDIA GTC 2020, Thunderspy
Join this week as we discuss all of the announcements from NVIDIA's GTC 2020 virtual event, check out the just-announced Unreal Engine 5, evaluate retail pricing for Intel's new 10th Gen Desktop…
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Got Thunderbolt? You Also Get Seven Thunderspy Vulnerabilities
***Update From Intel: In 2019, major operating systems implemented Kernel Direct Memory Access (DMA) protection to mitigate against attacks such as these. This includes Windows (Windows 10 1803 RS4 and later), Linux…
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