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A Teen Took Control of Teslas by Hacking a Third-Party App
Plus: Open source sabotage, Ukrainian website hacks, and more of the week's top security news...
IsContract Function Usage
Handle defsec Vulnerability details Impact the isContract function that uses EXTCODESIZE was discovered to be hackable. The function will return false if it is invoked from a contract's constructor because the contract has not been deployed yet. The code should be used very carefully, if at all, ...
Cold wallet, hot wallet, or empty wallet? What is the safest way to store cryptocurrency?
In August of 2021, a thief stole about $600 million in cryptocurrencies from The Poly Network. They ended up giving it back, but not because they were forced to. Slightly more than one week later, Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Liquid was hacked and lost $97 million worth of digital coins. Thes...
10 Netflix Hacks Enhance Your Binge-Watching Experience
By Owais Sultan Here are the best 10 Netflix Hacks that will enhance your binge-watching experience and keep you hooked to the screen! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 10 Netflix Hacks Enhance Your Binge-Watching Experience...
Microsoft Edge’s ‘Super Duper Secure Mode’ Does What It Says
Plus: Facebook account hacks, Instagram-ban scammers, and more of the week’s top security news...
The Olympics: a timeline of scams, hacks, and malware
The 2020 Olympics are, after a bit of a delayed start, officially in full swing. So too is the possibility for scammers to crawl out of the woodwork. And while actual, measurable cyberrattacks and hacks surrounding The Olympics did not truly get rolling until 2008 in Beijing, The Olympic games ha...
A New Tool Wants to Save Open Source from Supply Chain Hacks
Sigstore will make code signing free and easy for software developers, providing an important first line of defense...
The DarkSide Ransomware Gang
The New York Times has a long story on the DarkSide ransomware gang. A glimpse into DarkSides secret communications in the months leading up to the Colonial Pipeline attack reveals a criminal operation on the rise, pulling in millions of dollars in ransom payments each month. DarkSide offers what...
What Is a Honeypot❓ Definition, Types and More
A honeypot is a computer system made to appear like a potential target of a cyber-attack. It may be used to track or redirect hacks away from a legitimate target. It could like wise be utilized to comprehend the strategies that cybercriminals employ. Honeypots have been around for quite awhile, y...
Here are 5 MacBook Hacks that You Must Know
By Waqas MacBook hacks are endless. There is AirDrop, there is iMessage; the options are limitless but here are 5 quick hacks to make the best out of a MacBook. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Here are 5 MacBook Hacks that You Must Know...
Microsoft Exchange and Verkada Hacks: Isolate Your Apps and APIs from the Internet Cesspool
It's been an interesting start to March in terms of public security incidents. This month kicked off with multiple zero-day exploits being used to attack on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server. And, as if that wasn't enough, that attack was quickly followed by the news that a hacktivis...
Microsoft Exchange and Verkada Hacks: Isolate Your Apps and APIs from the Internet Cesspool
It's been an interesting start to March in terms of public security incidents. This month kicked off with multiple zero-day exploits being used to attack on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server. And, as if that wasn't enough, that attack was quickly followed by the news that a hacktivis...
Is IoT ever really yours?
When we buy a product, we generally assume that it’s ours and that we own it, right? The question of ownership gets quite interesting when we look at music – you might remember the alleged 2012 spat between Bruce Willis and Apple over ownership of iTunes purchases. It gets even more interesting...
The Worst Hacks of 2020, a Surreal Pandemic Year
From ransomware schemes to supply chain attacks, this year melded classic hacks with extraordinary circumstances...
Impressive iPhone Exploit
This is a scarily impressive vulnerability: Earlier this year, Apple patched one of the most breathtaking iPhone vulnerabilities ever: a memory corruption bug in the iOS kernel that gave attackers remote access to the entire device -- over Wi-Fi, with no user interaction required at all. Oh, and...
Game Titles Watch Dogs: Legion, Albion Both Targeted by Hackers
A ransomware gang that just emerged this month dubbed Egregor claims to have hacked the source code to the upcoming gaming release, Watch Dogs: Legion. And in separate gaming news, a popular fantasy title called Albion — a massive multiplayer online role-playing game MMORPG — has been hacked...
Introducing VideoBytes, by Malwarebytes Labs
We have exciting news for avid readers of Malwarebytes Labs: This week, we’re launching a new, monthly video series that will feature the research, insights, and commentary of our own Adam Kujawa, security evangelist and a director for Malwarebytes Labs. Welcome to VideoBytes, our little corner o...
A Spate of Arrests Sends the Piracy World Reeling
Plus: ATM hacks, the Belarus internet shutdown, and more of the week's top security news...
The Worst Hacks and Breaches of 2020 So Far
Iran, China, Russia—the gang was all here in the first half of this year. Oh, and also an unprecedented pandemic that’s been a boon for hackers...
Verizon Data Breach Report: DoS Skyrockets, Espionage Dips
Denial-of-service DoS attacks have spiked over the past year, while cyber-espionage campaigns have spiraled downwards. That’s according to Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR released Tuesday, which analyzed 32,002 security incidents and 3,950 data breaches across 16 industry...