Cops use fake DDoS services to take aim at wannabe cybercriminals
Thinking of trying a bit of DDoSsing to get a feel for life at the fringes of the Dark Side? Don’t do it!
Microsoft assigns CVE to Snipping Tool bug, pushes patch to Store
Microsoft says “successful exploitation requires uncommon user interaction”, but it’s the innocent and accidental leakage of private data you should be concerned about.
In Memoriam – Gordon Moore, who put the more in “Moore’s Law”
His prediction was called a “Law”, though it was an exhortation to engineering excellence as much it was an estimate.
WooCommerce Payments plugin for WordPress has an admin-level hole – patch now!
Admin-level holes in websites are always a bad thing… and for “bad”, read “worse” if it’s an e-commerce site.
S3 Ep127: When you chop someone out of a photo, but there they are anyway…
Listen now – latest episode. Full transcript inside.
Windows 11 also vulnerable to “aCropalypse” image data leakage
Turns out that the Windows 11 Snipping Tool has the same “aCropalypse” data leakage bug as Pixel phones. Here’s how to work around the problem…
Google Pixel phones had a serious data leakage bug – here’s what to do!
What if the “safe” images you shared after carefully cropping them… had some or all of the “unsafe” pixels left behind anyway?
Bitcoin ATM customers hacked by video upload that was actually an app
As the misquote goes, “Once is misfortune…” This is the second time, and you know what Lady Bracknell had to say about that…
Dangerous Android phone 0-day bugs revealed – patch or work around them now!
Despite its usually inflexible 0-day disclosure policy, Google is keeping four mobile modem bugs semi-secret due to likely ease of exploitation.
S3 Ep 126: The price of fast fashion (and feature creep) [Audio + Text]
Worried about rogue apps? Unsure about the new Outlook zero-day? Clear advice in plain English… just like old times, with Duck and Chet!