This Week In Security: Plenty Of Patches, Replacing Old Gear, And Phrack Calls For Papers
When Friday the Thirteenth and Patch Tuesday happen on the same week, we’re surely in for a good time. Anyone who maintains any sort of Microsoft ecosystem knows by now to brace for impact co…
Secure Communication, Buried In A News App
Cryptography is a funny thing. Supposedly, if you do the right kind of maths to a message, you can send it off to somebody else, and as long as they’re the only one that knows a secret little…
This Week In Security: Getting Back Up To Speed
Editor’s Note: Over the course of nearly 300 posts, Jonathan Bennett set a very high bar for this column, so we knew it needed to be placed in the hands of somebody who could do it justice. T…
Exploring Security Vulnerabilities In A Cheapo WiFi Extender
If all you want is just a basic WiFi extender that gets some level of network connectivity to remote parts of your domicile, then it might be tempting to get some of those $5, 300 Mbit extenders of…
Removing The BIOS Administrator Password On A ThinkPad Takes Timing
In the olden days, an administrator password on a BIOS was a mere annoyance, one quickly remedied by powering off the system and pulling its CMOS battery or moving a jumper around. These days, you&…
When Clever Hardware Hacks Bite Back: A Password Keeper Device Autopsy
Sometimes you have this project idea in your mind that seems so simple and straightforward, and which feels just so right that you have to roll with it. Then, years later you stumble across the sad…
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