Hacking

Infosec in brief Plus, PAN under attack, IT whistleblowers get a payout, and China kills online scammers

Breathe deep on internet fumes

Seven-year-old Cisco vuln that remains inexplicably unpatched is their way in

Burger slinger gets a McRibbing, reacts by firing staffer who helped

Good luck getting an appointment with your doctor

Trump-pardoned hacker Chris Wade will join the company as CTO

Video AI-spoofed Mark joins fellow billionaires as the voice of the street – here's how it was probably done

Pixel Watch 3 boots Microsoft's OS in latest feat of delightful pointlessness

Feds want book thrown at Paige Thompson, who pinched 100M customer records

Power-induced glitches, lasers, and electromagnetic fields are all tools of the trade

Video Rob Joyce explains how it's done

He'll just have to take this one on the chin

Updated It's still safe to drink, top provider tells us

DEF CON Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing?

Def Con Voting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included

15K dealerships take estimated $600M+ hit

Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway

Researchers allegedly stole $3M using the vulnerability, then asked how much it was really worth

Use Baidu's platform to show how the fusion of Lidar, radar, and cameras can be fooled by stuff from your kids' craft box

Elon controversial? No way

Modders claim GTA: Liberty City Stories and Tekken 6 are running 'very smoothly'

'Vault 7' leak detailed cyber-ops including forged digital certs

Infosec in brief ALSO: SEC admits to X account negligence; New macOS malware family appears; and some critical vulns

Sure, they do crimes. But the plausible deniability governments adore means they deserve a different label

Rules apply to cyber vigilantes and their home nations, but experts cast doubt over potential benefits

Black Hat When you can't even cat your telemetry safely, who can you trust?

Black Hat Oh, this old thing? Yeah, it's got an AMD processor. Why?

What a blast from the past, the past being a year before the pandemic

Video PMFault – from the eggheads who brought you Plundervolt and Voltpillager

Black Hat Asia Spectre-esque exploit figures out when interesting info might be in memory

Exec begged judge for leniency – and it worked

Scheme allegedly allowed taxi drivers to bypass airport waiting line for $10 fee

Users of the sports betting site rolled the dice on reusing passwords and lost

Separately, charges slapped on alleged operator of dark market, The Real Deal

Passing off a ransom payment as a bug bounty? That's obstruction of justice

The other Tessier-Ashpool AIs are surely disappointed

So is that three or four stars?

Online booking systems and other services knocked offline amid network intrusion

Black Hat In Brief TL;DR: The news isn't good

In brief Plus: Cyber-mercenaries said to target legal world, backdoor found on web servers, and more

It's easy to see why – the question is, why now?

Source remains unclear, plenty suspect Iran

Suspected admin who went by 'Omnipotent' awaits UK decision on extradition to US

Small, self-described sample, sure. But results show shifts over time

Analysis Hitting big targets, untouchable, technically proficient. Who will it inspire next?

Reuters claims nine State Department employees outside the US had their devices hacked

Badger, badger, badger, coin theft, coin theft!

Prosecutors claim Nickolas Sharp even posed as a whistleblower to press

Senate intelligence committee hears ideas in light of SolarWinds disaster

Check Point says Beijing 'reconstructed' Equation Group's hacking tool long before leak

Nicholas Faber joins accomplice Michael Fish in admitting he raided university portal for sensitive info

Instructions for spotting and keeping suspected Russians out of systems

Financial info swiped for 15 small-biz clients, too

VC firms say they weren't aware Orion code had been backdoored

Analysis Orion networking monitoring users need to take action as we summarize what the hell is going on

Not a great look