It may be about time to update the firmware on your Netgear equipment. Netgear has issued security patches for a wide array of its networking products as of Friday. The company has stated they contain flaws that could leave them vulnerable to hackers. The products are as follows: Modem/routers: D6200, D6220, D6400, D7000, D7000v2, D7800, […]
Category: Hacks
This is somewhat worrying. A newly announced iOS exploit could lead to a permanent, unblock able jailbreak on hundreds of millions of iPhones. Per a security research team known as “axi0mX,” the exploit, dubbed “checkm8,” functions as a bootroom vulnerability that could give hackers deep access to iOS devices on a level that Apple would […]
There may be some room for improvement with the WPA3 standard. WPA3, a Wi-Fi security protocol launched by the Wi-Fi Alliance in 2018 — is, in practice, better than WPA2, but still fraught with security flaws, according to a recent research paper. “In light of our presented attacks, we believe that WPA3 does not meet […]
Sometimes hacks are a good thing. Over at the Pwn2Own security conference in Vancouver, no less than two major security flaws were discovered in Apple’s Safari web browser. The flaws, if exploited, could allow an outside party to seize full control of a targeted Mac. Demonstrated by the “phoenhex & qwerty” team during the contest, […]
In the realm of “cool things that are cool,” an article on Motherboard notes how hackers and security researchers use “dev-fused” iPhones to bypass Apple’s protections and security features to help discover vulnerabilities and sensitive information. The dev-fused iPhones themselves are rate and have not finished the production process via Apple, making them akin to […]