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China's Great Firewall blocked all traffic to a common HTTPS port for over an hour, severing connection to the outside world
By Nathaniel Mott published
Forged TCP RST+ACK packets disrupted port 443, but not common ports like 22, 80 or 8443

A popular VPN extension for Google Chrome has been screenshotting every page users visit
By Nathaniel Mott published
Koi Security discovered that the popular FreeVPN extension for Google Chrome has been silently taking screenshots of every website its users visit.

Security researcher driven by free nuggets unearths McDonald's security flaw
By Nathaniel Mott published
A security researcher called "BobDaHacker" revealed how they repeatedly gained access to a McDonald's platform that's supposed to be closed off to the public.

Intel Outside: Researcher downloaded data on all 270,000 Intel employees from an internal business card website
By Mark Tyson published
Security researcher Eaton was inspired to do some gentle prying of Intel websites, after considering the company's hardware security reputation.

Report claims 'the era of AI hacking has arrived'
By Nathaniel Mott published
The security industry and the hackers they're supposed to defend against have both increased their use of AI as publicly available agents become more capable.

Booking.com customers learn the hard way that Unicode is tricky
By Nathaniel Mott published
A phishing campaign targeting Booking.com users relies on a technique involving the ambiguity of Unicode characters.

Bizarre cyberattack blamed on Russia and China-linked hackers permanently breaks dozens of speed cameras in the Netherlands
By Nathaniel Mott published
A hack reportedly left "dozens" of speed cameras in the Netherlands inoperable and unrecoverable.

Russia hacked and took control of a Norwegian dam, police chief claims
By Mark Tyson published
Moscow is to blame for a cyberattack on a dam, which remotely opened the floodgates for a period of around four hours, says Norway's security chief.

Google's AI could be tricked into enabling spam, revealing a user's location, and leaking private correspondence with a calendar invite
By Nathaniel Mott published
Google's AI could be tricked into enabling spam, revealing a user's location, and leaking private correspondence, among other things, with just a calendar invite.
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