Hacking News

The Chinese government has shut down more than 13,000 websites for breaking Internet laws, reports Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency. These rules and regulations have governed the country’s networks since 2015. Read more

You’d think by now with the pervasiveness of inherently insecure Internet of Things things that creative hacking would be a thing of the past for security researchers. It’s gotten too easy to find security holes and ways to abuse IoT devices; they’re such easy marks. Read more

It’s hard to establish a successful online identity system. Even after 40 years, nobody has managed it. Microsoft has tried three times: its first effort (Hailstorm) was shouted down; its second (CardSpace aka InfoCard) failed, despite being very well thought out; and its third (U-Prove) hasn’t been launched. Read more

Exploit code used in the Mirai malware variant called Satori, which was used to attack hundreds of thousands of Huawei routers over the past several weeks, is now public. Researchers warn the code will quickly become a commodity and be leveraged in DDoS attacks via botnets such as Reaper or IOTrooper. Read more

NTU researchers have revealed that smartphones can now be hacked using the data accumulated from sensors. Dr. Shivam, a scientist at NTU, who recently developed an app that can hack data from smartphones using sensors, found this recently and the news has sent shockwaves around the world. Read more

This type of abusive conduct is possible because of a configuration flaw in the login handlers included with all browsers, login managers that allow browsers to memorize a user’s username and password for particular sites and auto-insert it in login fields when the user revisits that site again. Read more

For those with an interest in information security, who would like a sobering read to take the edge off the holiday cheer, the Report on Internal Controls and Governance 2017 from the Audit Office of New South Wales fits the bill. Released prior to Christmas, the report details the extent to which NSW government agencies

At CES 2017, Amazon’s Alexa platform dominated the headlines as the voice assistant was embedded in more devices. Later in the year, Amazon rolled out a bevy of Echo devices for every price point and use case. Read more

The family has their phone numbers back now but say they want the cell phone company to be more responsive to customers. “I was getting a little frustrated because I could tell the support engineers didn’t know what was going on or the severity of it,” Bristol said. KING 5 talked with T-Mobile, who said

Photographing any of the 50 employees, aside from the CEO, was out of the question. Many hail from prestigious army intelligence branches such as Unit 8200, and in their cat-and-mouse game to thwart hackers, they prefer to keep as low a profile as possible. The White Hat guys are strolling the far reaches of the