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Windows Downdate vulnerability: exploitation techniques and countermeasures

How to guard against Windows downgrade attacks

Windows Downdate is an attack that can roll back updates to your OS to reintroduce vulnerabilities and allow attackers to take full control of your system. How to mitigate the risk?

8 fun facts about fax. Yes, fax!

Which is older, the phone or the fax? Is it true that no one faxes anymore? And can a fax machine be hacked? (Spoiler: yes)

MitM and DoS attacks on domains through the use of residual certificates

Due to certification centers specifics, it is not rare for other people to hold a valid HTTPS certificate for your domain. What can go wrong?

Man-in-the-Disk: A new and dangerous way to hack Android

How a seemingly harmless Android application can infect your smartphone using shared external storage.

Probing the smart city for vulnerabilities

How safe are smart cities?

Hijacking online accounts through voicemail

When it comes to online accounts, voicemail is a major security hole. Here’s why.

Security Week: Doors without locks, invulnerable Microsoft, disassembler and pain

In this post there are two seemingly unrelated pieces of news which nevertheless have one thing in common: not that somewhere someone is vulnerable, but that vulnerability sometimes arises from reluctance to take available security measures.