by Lily Hay Newman | Aug 9, 2019 | News
For the last two years, hackers have come to the Voting Village at the DefCon security conference in Las Vegas to tear down voting machines and analyze them for vulnerabilities. But this year’s Village features a fancy new target: a prototype secure voting machine...
by Lily Hay Newman | Aug 8, 2019 | News
Apple Pay has a slew of protective features that make it a secure method of online credit card transactions. And since 2016, third-party merchants and services have been able to embed Apple Pay into their websites and offer it as a payment option. But at the Black Hat...
by Lily Hay Newman | Aug 8, 2019 | News
You probably know by now about rampant insecurity in Internet of Things devices. You’ve likely even heard about vulnerabilities in desk phones specifically. Security research into the devices—and the potential for hackers to take them over, turn them into...
by Lily Hay Newman | Aug 8, 2019 | News
This week, the notorious forum 8chan went down after its infrastructure provider Cloudflare withdrew its services over the forum’s radical, violence-promoting content. Cloudflare didn’t shut the site down directly, but by removing its protection against...
by Lily Hay Newman | Aug 7, 2019 | News
When you think about how hackers could break into your smartphone, you probably start with clicking a malicious link in a text, downloading a fraudulent app, or some other way you accidentally let them in. It turns out that’s not necessarily so—not even on the...
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