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Wi-Fi devices going back to 1997 are vulnerable to attackers who can steal your data if they're in range.

Paper ballots and source-code transparency are recommended to improve election security.

minute read Share this article: ‘Freevaccinecovax.org’ claimed to be that of a biotech company but instead was stealing info from visitors to use for nefarious purposes. Federal law enforcement in Maryland has shut down a fraudulent website targeting immigrant communities that claimed to be for a company developing a COVID-19 vaccine. Instead, the site was stealing information from people with the purpose of using it for future cybercriminal activity. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland, working with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Baltimore, s...

minute read Share this article: On top of the privacy spill, Peloton is also recalling all treadmills after the equipment was linked to 70 injuries and the death of one child. Peloton has hit a pothole. Its API was leaking riders’ private data, it ignored a vulnerability disclosure from a penetration testing company, and it partially fixed the hole but didn’t get around to telling the researcher until he reached out to a cybersecurity journalist for some help. This is bad news for Peloton, coming just before other, far more horrific news hit the headlines: Namely, on Wednesd...

minute read Share this article: Remote code execution, privilege escalation to root and lateral movement through a victim’s environment are all on offer for the unpatched or unaware. A veritable cornucopia of security vulnerabilities in the Exim mail server have been uncovered, some of which could be chained together for unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE), gaining root privileges and worm-style lateral movement, according to researchers. The Qualys Research Team has discovered a whopping 21 bugs in the popular mail transfer agent (MTA), which was built to send and rece...