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Mar 9, 2020
A lot has happened on last week, folks! But, first, don't panic! Don’t Panic: The comprehensive Ars Technica guide to the coronavirus More than 100,000 people have been infected with a new coronavirus that has spread widely from its origin… read more »
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Mar 6, 2020
In 2008, a team of students and researchers from Princeton University, Wind River Systems and the Electronic Frontier Foundation published a research paper [3] examining the phenomena of computer memory remanence.That paper has confirmed what had long been theorized by… read more »
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Mar 5, 2020
A research team has recently discovered a new attack method that enables remote users to interact with voice-controlled device using ultrasonic waves transmitted through (for example) the surface on which is placed the target device. The attack, dubbed "SurfingAttack" [1]… read more »
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Mar 4, 2020
During an incident response, a fast analysis could be required, often on systems that aren't the workstation usually used by the analyst.So, I always suggest to create a small and simple toolkit that can be copied on a USB stick.… read more »
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Mar 3, 2020
A brief update regarding the Ghostcat vulnerability (CVE-2020-1938) that affects Apache Tomcat servers. According to a tweet by cyber threat intelligence firm Bad Packets, "mass scanning activity targeting this vulnerability has already begun": https://twitter.com/bad_packets/status/1233900872159002624 The attack perimeter is huge: according… read more »
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Mar 2, 2020
Luckily, there's more to life than coronavirus! Cybersecurity New Wi-Fi Encryption Vulnerability Affects Over A Billion Devices Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a new high-severity hardware vulnerability residing in the widely-used Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress—apparently powering over a… read more »
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Feb 28, 2020
It is well known that voice assistants aren’t perfect and will start recording event when you don't say their trigger word, but a team of researchers wanted to quantify how often these activations happen and what the devices hear when… read more »
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Feb 26, 2020
The researchers who disclosed the aLTEr attack last year (David Rupprecht, Thorsten Holz, and Christina Pöpper), have found new ways to exploit the lack of integrity protection on the 4G/5G user plane in a new attack called Imp4Gt. Whereas the… read more »