How to Protect the Data on Your Laptop

Your laptop is a treasure trove of personal and sensitive information—make sure it's as secure as it can be...

USB Cable Kill Switch for Laptops

BusKill is designed to wipe your laptop Linux only if it is snatched from you in a public place: The idea is to connect the BusKill cable to your Linux laptop on one end, and to your belt, on the other end. When someone yanks your laptop from your lap or table, the USB cable disconnects from the...

Researchers Heat Up Cold-Boot Attack That Works on All Laptops

A pair of researchers have developed an attack method that can bypass mitigations for cold-boot attacks on laptops. A physical attacker can compromise a laptop that’s in sleep mode, potentially lifting sensitive passwords, encryption keys and other information. The ramifications are, on the...

Edward Snowden’s Haven app turns your laptop into a security system

By Asad Gilani Most sensitive users of technology, especially those in journalism and This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Edward Snowdens Haven app turns your laptop into a security system...

CVE-2015-7267

The CVE-2015-7267 entry applies to Samsung 850 Pro/PM851 SSDs and Seagate ST500LT015/ST500LT025 HDDs used in Lenovo ThinkPad T440s (BIOS 2.32) and W541 (BIOS 2.21), Dell Latitude E6410 (BIOS A16), and Latitude E6430 (BIOS A16). It describes a physical-access risk where, when the drives operate in...

PITA Side-Channel Crypto Key Attack

It’s unlikely that anyone envisioned the evolution of cryptographic key thievery to include leavened flatbread, but that’s where we’ve arrived. Researchers from Tel Aviv University in Israel are expected in September to present a paper at the Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded System...

USBKill — Code That Kills Computers Before They Examine USBs for Secrets

USBkill — A new program that once activated, will instantly disable the laptop or computer if there is any activity on USB port. Hey Wait, don’t compare USBkill with the USB Killer stick that destroy sensitive components of a computer when plugged-in. "USBKill" is a new weapon that could be a boo...

Toshiba ConfigFree CF7 File Stack Buffer Overflow (Comment Field

/----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Toshiba ConfigFree CF7 File Stack Buffer Overflow Comment Field | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ Summary ======= There is a stack buffer overflow...

Facebook Enhances Security With HTTPS, Remote Disconnect !

Maybe it was Mark Zuckerberg fan site hack that led upgrade security of Facebook, but for some reason, users now have access HTTPS. Facebook will leave the office during the next few weeks, which means that user activity is now encrypted when it hits a Web server. This is mainly useful when you...

Easily crack open the Lost Password laptop-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

For laptops, it is best not easily set a password, because the laptop's boot password is not like a PC that stored in CMOS circuit can through the discharge clear, at the moment a new laptop is the password stored on the motherboard of the few pieces of logic circuits, we personally are unable to...

[Full-Disclosure] Vulnerability in Terminal.app

There is a vulnerability in Apple's Terminal.app for OS X which affects Apple laptops. When running from the Terminal within the Unix shell, the command sudo normally will not prompt for a password for five minutes after the password was last given. The vulnerability occurs when putting an Apple...