Ruben Santamarta was flying from Madrid to Copenhagen in November 2017 on a Norwegian Airlines flight when he decided to inspect the plane's Wi-Fi network security. So he launched Wireshark from his laptop and began monitoring the network.
Facebook has announced that it has awarded $800,000 to ten projects looking to make the internet and people on Facebook more secure. Each of the winners was awarded prize money of between $60,000 and $100,000 on the sidelines of the Black Hat USA security conference in Las Vegas. It will also award a further $200,000 via the Internet Defense Prize at the USENIX Security Symposium on August 15th.
Discussing the selections and the selection process, Alex Stamos, Facebook’s Chief Security Officer, wrote:
Microsoft is building a new Windows 10 sandboxing feature that will let users run untrusted software in a virtualized environment that's discarded when the program finishes running.
Life-saving pacemakers manufactured by Medtronic don’t rely on encryption to safeguard firmware updates, a failing that makes it possible for hackers to remotely install malicious wares that threaten patients’ lives, security researchers said Thursday.
It’s been a mildly rough week for Wi-Fi security: hard on the heels of a WPA2 weakness comes a programming cockup in the wpa_supplicant configuration tool used on Linux, Android, and other operating systems.
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Research funded by the Department of Homeland Security has found a “slew” of vulnerabilities in mobile devices offered by the four major U.S. cell phone carriers, including loopholes that may allow a hacker to gain access to a user’s data, emails, text messages without the owner’s knowledge.
The flaws allow a user “to escalate privileges and take over the device,” Vincent Sritapan, a program manager at the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate told Fifth Domain during the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
A hacker says they have hacked into John McAfee's "unhackable" Bitfi cryptocurrency wallet.
A Dutch "IT geek" that goes by OverSoft on Twitter tweeted Wednesday they had root access to the antivirus software pioneer's crypto-wallet, which McAfee and hardware wallet company Bitfi said had "absolute" security.
Reddit said in a blog post Wednesday that a hacker broke into the company's systems in June and gained access to a variety of data, including user emails, source code, internal files, and “all Reddit data from 2007 and before.” And it likely could have been avoided if some Reddit employees were using two-factor authentication apps or physical keys instead of their phone numbers.
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