windowsHow to guard against Windows downgrade attacks
Windows Downdate is an attack that can roll back updates to your OS to reintroduce vulnerabilities and allow attackers to take full control of your system. How to mitigate the risk?
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def con8 fun facts about fax. Yes, fax!
Which is older, the phone or the fax? Is it true that no one faxes anymore? And can a fax machine be hacked? (Spoiler: yes)
MitM and DoS attacks on domains through the use of residual certificates
Due to certification centers specifics, it is not rare for other people to hold a valid HTTPS certificate for your domain. What can go wrong?
Man-in-the-Disk: A new and dangerous way to hack Android
How a seemingly harmless Android application can infect your smartphone using shared external storage.
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Hijacking online accounts through voicemail
When it comes to online accounts, voicemail is a major security hole. Here’s why.
Attacks on enterprise security: Microsoft services as a weapon
Black Hat 2017 demonstrated that Microsoft enterprise solutions could be quite useful in attackers’ hands.
Security Week 33: Doors without locks, invulnerable Microsoft, disassembler and pain
In this post there are two seemingly unrelated pieces of news which nevertheless have one thing in common: not that somewhere someone is vulnerable, but that vulnerability sometimes arises from reluctance to take available security measures.
Black Hat USA 2015: The full story of how that Jeep was hacked
Recently we wrote about the Jeep Cherokee hack incident. At Black Hat security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek finally explained, how exactly the now-famous Jeep hack happened.