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Finally, HID stated that “to the best of its knowledge,” no encoder keys have been leaked or exposed, and “none of these issues have been exploited…

“We think we’ve created the first laser microphone that’s actually modulated in the radio frequency range,” Kamkar says. “Once you’ve got a radio signal, you can…

Researchers have long known that they can glean hidden information about the inner workings of a website by measuring the time it takes for various requests…

Other attacks Burghley created show how a hacker (who would also have already compromised an email account) could access sensitive information, such as people’s salaries, without…

Smith combed Reddit and other online sources to find people who reported the scams and the URLs they were using, which he later made public. Some…

Since the early 1990s, people have used doxxing – revealing someone’s identity online and taking away their anonymity – as a harmful way to exact digital…

New research being presented today at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas claims that exploiting a vulnerability in Windows Update to downgrade Windows to…

On July 19, Jonathan Cardy and his family watched as the departures board at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina changed from green to solid red.…

“It’s not just a matter of water being cut off. When the only sewage treatment plant in the area stops working, really bad things start happening.…

If it seems like there’s suddenly been a sudden spike in data breaches, you might be right. One of the reasons for this surge is the…