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Researchers Find Serious Flaws in iMessage Encryption

New research from a team at Johns Hopkins University shows that there are serious problems with the way Apple implemented encryption on itsiMessage system, leaving it open to retrospective decryption attacks that can reveal the contents of all of a victim’s past iMessage texts. The iMessage system, like much of what Apple does, is opaque and its […]

Facebook Has Difficult Road to Make Ads Unblockable

As Facebook and the makers and users of Adblock Plus go back and forth over the social network’s efforts to defeat ad-blocking software, security experts who have analyzed the situation and the technical details of it say Facebook likely is fighting a losing battle. Facebook last week announced a change to the way that it […]

Adblock Plus Blocks Facebook Ad-Block Blocking

Just a couple of days after Facebook decided to block ad-blocking software, the Internet community has reacted by producing a workaround that enables Adblock Plus, one of the more popular ad-defeating plugins, to counteract Facebook’s actions. On Tuesday, the social media giant said that it was changing the way that some ads would behave on […]

New Attacks Can Monitor Keystrokes, Steal Sensitive Data from Android Phones

Researchers from an Austrian university have developed techniques that allow them to perform cache attacks on non-rooted Android phones that can monitor the keystrokes, screen taps, and even observe code execution inside the ARM processor’s TrustZone secure execution environment. The attacks the team developed are complex and rely on a number of individual building blocks. […]

Widespread Linux Flaw Allows TCP Session Hijacking, Termination

The TCP implementation in all Linux systems built since 2012 has a serious flaw that can allow an attacker to terminate or inject data into a session between any two vulnerable machines on the Internet. The bug could also be used to end encrypted connections or downgrade the privacy of connections run through Tor or […]

The Gory Details of Mobile Ad Tracking

As Apple and Google add better privacy protections to their mobile platforms, advertising firms have had to get more and more creative with how they display ads to users and track them as they move around the physical world as well as the Internet. One of the companies that has been at the center of […]

Oracle Looking Into Micros Data Breach

Oracle is in the process of investigating a data breach that affects customers of its MICROS point-of-sale systems. The breach apparently hit the software giant sometime last month, and it involves the customer portal for MICROS users. Oracle, which purchased MICROS in 2014, has sent a letter to affected customers, warning them that the company is doing […]

On the Wire Podcast: Black Hat Roundtable

In the midst of the Black Hat mayhem last week, Dennis Fisher took some time to sit down for a group podcast with some fellow journalists and other guests, including Patrick Gray of the Risky Business podcast, Jessy Irwin, Mike Mimoso of Threatpost, Fahmida Rashid of InfoWorld, Chris Brook of Threatpost, and Brian Donohue of […]

AT&T Hit With $6.8 Million Fine in Cramming Investigation

AT&T will pay nearly $7 million in restitution to consumers who were victims of a scam in which a couple of sham companies were allowed to bill wireline customers for fake district assistance services without their consent or knowledge. The settlement is the result of an investigation that began when the Drug Enforcement Administration was looking […]