Presidential Cybersecurity and Pelotons
February 5 2021
President Biden wants his Peloton in the White House. For those who have missed the hype, it’s an Internet-connected stationary bicycle. It has a screen, a camera, and...
Read moreGoogle’s Payout to Bug Hunters Hits New High
February 4 2021Over 660 researchers from 62 countries collected rewards for reporting bugs in Chrome, Android, and other Google technologies.
Read moreIBM Offers $3M in Grants to Defend Schools from Cyberattacks
February 4 2021The grants will be awarded to six school districts in the United States to help prepare for, and respond to, cyberattacks.
Read moreMicrosoft Says It’s Time to Attack Your Machine-Learning Models
February 4 2021With access to some training data, Microsoft's red team recreated a machine-learning system and found sequences of requests that resulted in a denial-of-service.
Read moreWeb Application Attacks Grow Reliant on Automated Tools
February 4 2021Attackers often use automation in fuzzing attacks, injection attacks, fake bots, and application DDoS attacks.
Read moreFacebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter this week all took steps to crack down on users involved in trafficking hijacked user accounts across their platforms. The coordinated action seized hundreds...
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Read moreFree coffee! Dutch researcher hacks prepaid vending machines
February 4 2021Only try this at home, folks! As easy as it might look, it's illegal in the wild, with good reason.
Read moreIs $50,000 for a Vulnerability Too Much?
February 4 2021Lofty bug bounties catch attention, but don't alleviate the application security flaws they are trying to solve.
Read moreAnother SolarWinds Orion Hack
February 4 2021
At the same time the Russians were using a backdoored SolarWinds update to attack networks worldwide, another threat actor — believed to be Chinese in origin — was using...
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