Election Systems Are Even More Vulnerable Than We Thought

Black Hat and Defcon are underway in Vegas, WhatsApp flaws allow hackers to alter messages, and more of this week’s top security news...

Hackers Take on Darpa's $10 Million Voting Machine

At this year's Defcon hacking conference, Darpa brought the beginnings of what it hopes will be impervious hardware...

How Safecrackers Can Unlock an ATM in Minutes—Without Leaving a Trace

At Defcon this week, security researcher Mike Davis will show how he can pick the lock of an ATM safe in no time, thanks to its electric leaks...

A Model Hospital Where the Devices Get Hacked—on Purpose

At this year's Defcon Medical Device Village, hackers will attack real medical devices at a pretend hospital...

Millions of Android Smartphones Vulnerable to Trio of Qualcomm Bugs

UPDATE Security researchers from Tencent’s Blade Team are warning Android smartphone and tablet users of flaws in Qualcomm chipsets, called QualPwn. The bugs collectively allow hackers to compromise Android devices remotely simply by sending malicious packets over-the-air – no user interaction...

Reverse-CTF, Snort rule challenge and more — What to expect from Talos at Defcon

Want to get up close and personal with Talos researchers? Then be sure to stick around for the second half of “Hacker Summercamp:” Defcon. After our series of talks at Blackhat, we’re headed elsewhere on the strip for Defcon. Specifically, we’ll have a huge presence at this year’s Blue Team...

Beers with Talos Ep. #57 - It’s a business decision, not rocket science

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. 57 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded July 8, 2019 — Matt skipped this episode podcast in favor of a meeting for real. The rest of the crew carried on to...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking at Black Hat USA 2019 in Las Vegas on Wednesday, August 7 and Thursday, August 8, 2019. I'm speaking on "Information Security in the Public Interest" at DefCon 27 in Las Vegas on Saturday, August 10, 2019. The list is...

MacOS Zero Day Allows Trusted Apps to Run Malicious Code

A researcher has revealed a zero-day flaw in Apple’s Mojave operating system tied to the way the OS verifies apps. The bug allows attackers to sneak past macOS security measures and run whitelisted apps that have been manipulated to run malicious code. macOS researcher Patrick Wardle revealed the...

Beers with Talos Ep. #53: Shiny happy election security (and ninjas)

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. 53 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded May 10, 2019 — Election security has been a dominant headline for some time, so it’s high time we take a look at what th...

50m-ctf: CTF Writeup - c8889970d9fb722066f31e804e351993

CTF Code: c8889970d9fb722066f31e804e351993 HackerOne $50M CTF Write-Up ============ I came across this tweet announcing the HackerOne CTF for invitations to the HackerOne event in Vegas during DEFCON. I tried searching for a URL for the CTF, but couldn't find anything online, so I assumed that th...

Badgelife: A Defcon 26 retrospective

One more year gone, one more Defcon completed. Defcon is the longest-running security conference in existence and one that I have been attending since Defcon 18. It is an opportunity to see and interact in real life with industry peers that would forever remain a digital persona otherwise. It is...

Defcon: 11-year-old modifies Florida Presidential voting results

By Waqas At the largest hacking conference in the world, Defcon 2018, there have been many surprising discoveries. However, the news that has shocked the United States is the hacking and modifications of election results by young kids. The 26th Defcon conference is being held in Las Vegas...

Hackers can manipulate Police body cam footages

By Waqas Kiss goodbye to crucial evidence. Body cameras used by the law enforcement nowadays have already remained controversial but no one has, so far, attempted to assess the credibility of the device itself. But, at Defcon 2018, police body cameras became an object of discussion when a...

A week in security (July 31 – August 6)

Last week we explored some basic PowerShell commands, dived into the new methods used by TrickBot, and wrote at length about the Magnitude exploit kit redirection chain. Our teams were busy at both BlackHat and DefCon, and outside of those famous hallways, we also took time to fire up some basic...

Ford, BMW, Infiniti and Nissan TCU presence of a vulnerability, can be remote intrusion-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Three researchers found that Ford, BMW, Infiniti and Nissan Automatic Transmission Control UnitTCUin the presence of a vulnerability, these TCU are made by Continental AG production. Vulnerability causes The three researchers from McAfee, respectively, is Mickey Shkatov, Jesse, Michael and...

Voting Machine Security

Last week, DefCon hosted a "Voter Hacker Village" event. Every single voting machine there was easily hackable. Here are detailed details. There should be a summary report soon; I'll add it to this post when it's published...

For hackers at Defcon hacking US voting machines was a piece of cake

By Waqas The Democratic party in the United States along with some This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: For hackers at Defcon hacking US voting machines was a piece of cake...

Friends in War Make or Break 1.7 - Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications x Type: Admin login bypass via SQLi x Vendor: http://software.friendsinwar.com/ x Script Name: Make or Break x Script Version: 1.7 x Script DL: http://software.friendsinwar.com/downloads.php?catid=2&fileid=9 x Author: Anarchy Angel x More info...

Friends in War Make or Break 1.7 - Authentication Bypass

x Type: Admin login bypass via SQLi x Vendor: http://software.friendsinwar.com/ x Script Name: Make or Break x Script Version: 1.7 x Script DL: http://software.friendsinwar.com/downloads.php?catid=2&fileid=9 x Author: Anarchy Angel x Mail: anarchydotang31@gmaildotcom x More info:...