Iran's State TV Hijacked Mid-Broadcast Amid Geopolitical Tensions; $90M Stolen in Crypto Heist

Iran's state-owned TV broadcaster was hacked Wednesday night to interrupt regular programming and air videos calling for street protests against the Iranian government, according to multiple reports. It's currently not known who is behind the attack, although Iran pointed fingers at Israel, per...

Wi-Fi Devices as Physical Object Sensors

The new 802.11bf standard will turn Wi-Fi devices into object sensors: In three years or so, the Wi-Fi specification is scheduled to get an upgrade that will turn wireless devices into sensors capable of gathering data about the people and objects bathed in their signals. "When 802.11bf will be...

CVE-2020-12826

A signal access-control issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.6.5, aka CID-7395ea4e65c2. Because execid in include/linux/sched.h is only 32 bits, an integer overflow can interfere with a donotifyparent protection mechanism. A child process can send an arbitrary signal to a parent...

Integer overflow

A signal access-control issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.6.5, aka CID-7395ea4e65c2. Because execid in include/linux/sched.h is only 32 bits, an integer overflow can interfere with a donotifyparent protection mechanism. A child process can send an arbitrary signal to a parent...

Wi-Fi Signal Interference Can Leak Your Passwords and Keystrokes

Hackers can steal your sensitive information, such as your Passwords, PINs and Keystrokes, from your phone by observing changes in the wireless signal as you enter them into your smartphones. A group of researchers from the Shanghai Jaio Tong University, the University of South Florida and the...

Retaliating Against "Abuses" and "Exploits" Anonymous Breaches BART Site, Publishes User Data

In their latest effort, the online-collective Anonymous breached the Website of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit BART System. In a statement, BART claims to have suffered a compromise in which some 2,400 of their 55,000 members were affected. The leaked information includes names, email...