Hardening Agent Benchmarks with Adversarial Hacker-Fixer Loops

Agent benchmarks score submissions with outcome verifiers that are typically hand-written and brittle, leaving them open to reward hacking. We audit 1,968 tasks across five terminal-agent benchmarks and find 323 16% hackable by frontier models given only the task description. This corrupts both...

Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare

Plus: Meta officially kills encrypted Instagram DMs, the Trump administration targets “violent left wing extremists,” leaked documents reveal Russia's school for elite hackers, and more...

Your Gym Locker May Be Hackable

Security researchers say they’ve extracted digital management keys from select electronic lockers and revealed how they could be cloned...

The Feds Say These Are the Russian Hackers Who Attacked US Water Utilities

Plus: The FBI unlocks the Trump shooter’s phone, a security researcher gets legal threats for exposing hackable traffic lights, and more...

Microsoft’s Recall Feature Is Even More Hackable Than You Thought

A new discovery that the AI-enabled feature’s historical data can be accessed even by hackers without administrator privileges only contributes to the growing sense that the feature is a “dumpster fire.”...

How China Demands Tech Firms Reveal Hackable Flaws in Their Products

Some foreign companies may be complying—potentially offering China’s spies hints for hacking their customers...

60,000 Androids have stalkerware-type app Spyhide installed

Stalkerware-type app Spyhide is coded so badly that its possible to gain access to the back-end databases and retrieve data about everyone that has the app on their device. And it's not a small number. Hacktivist maia arson crimew told TechCrunch she'd found 60,000 compromised Android devices,...

Researcher found 70% Wi-Fi networks in Tel Aviv are hackable

By Waqas While examining Wi-Fi networks in Tel Aviv, Israel, 70% or around three-quarters of home and small-scale office Wi-Fi network passwords were vulnerable to hacking using inexpensive hacking tools. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Researcher found 70% Wi-Fi networks...

Tesla cars can be remotely hacked using drone, WIFI dongle

By Waqas Researchers were able to open Tesla Model X’s doors with a remote hack they perform via a DJI Mavic 2 drone carrying a WIFI dongle. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Tesla cars can be remotely hacked using drone, WIFI dongle...

Apple’s Hackable iPhones Are Finally Here

Last year, Apple announced a special device just for hackers. The phone—for approved researchers only—will soon go into circulation...

'Unbreakable' Smart Lock Draws FTC Ire for Deceptive Security Claims

The Federal Trade Commission has slapped Tapplock, the maker of smart padlocks that it bills as “unbreakable,” with an official complaint that could lead to fines down the road. The agency alleges that the company engaged in false and deceptive claims about its security practices, after the lock...

Rabid - A CLI Tool And Library Allowing To Simply Decode All Kind Of BigIP Cookies

RA pid B ig I P D ecoder What it is A CLI tool and library allowing to simply decode all kind of BigIP cookies. Features Support all 4 cookie formats CLI tool & library Hackable References Homepage / Documentation: https://orange-cyberdefense.github.io/rabid/ Author Made by Alexandre ZANNI @noraj...

Hundreds of Millions of PC Components Still Have Hackable Firmware

The lax security of supply chain firmware has been a known concern for years—with precious little progress being made...

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...

Palantir Manual Shows How Law Enforcement Tracks Families

An Apple Watch bug, a hackable hair straightener, and more security news this week...

Hackers Can Slip Invisible Malware into 'Bare Metal' Cloud Computers

Researchers point a tough-to-fix in some cloud computing setups: hackable firmware...

Evaluating the GCHQ Exceptional Access Proposal

The so-called Crypto Wars have been going on for 25 years now. Basically, the FBI -- and some of their peer agencies in the UK, Australia, and elsewhere -- argue that the pervasive use of civilian encryption is hampering their ability to solve crimes and that they need the tech companies to make...

This Week in Security News: Banks and Botnets

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, the FBI warned U.S. banks of a wide-scale cybercrime campaign called “ATM cash-out,” in which hackers use cloned ATM cards for fraudulent...

Multiple Internet-Connected BMW vehicles vulnerable to getting hacked

By Waqas In total, researchers have identified 14 vulnerabilities in Multiple Internet-Connected BMW This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Multiple Internet-Connected BMW vehicles vulnerable to getting hacked...

SiteOmat Station Automation Software Multiple Vulnerabilities

A few months ago, while undertaking unrelated research into online connected devices, we uncovered something surprising and realized almost immediately that we could be looking at a critical security threat. What we found was a simple purple web interface that was in fact a link to a real-life ga...