Linux team in public bust-up over fake “patches” to introduce bugs

Embarrassed overreaction or righteous indignation? An academic research group has provoked the Linux crew to ban their whole university!

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S3 Ep29: Anti-tracking, rowhammer problems and IoT vulns [Podcast]

Latest episode - listen now!

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When cryptography attacks – how TLS helps malware hide in plain sight

No IT technology feels quite as much of a double-edged sword as encryption.

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Firefox 88 patches bugs and kills off a sneaky JavaScript tracking trick

What's in a window name? Turns out that it could be a sneaky tracking code, so Firefox has put a stop to that.

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Naked Security Live – To hack or not to hack?

Latest video - watch now! We look at the recent FBI "webshell hacking" controversy from both sides.

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Serious Security: Rowhammer is back, but now it’s called SMASH

Simply put: reading from RAM in your program could write to RAM in someone else's

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S3 Ep28.5: Hacking back – is attack an acceptable form of defence? [Podcast]

Listen now - and have your say on this divisive issue in our comments!

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S3 Ep28: Pwn2Own hacks, dark web hitmen and COVID-19 privacy [Podcast]

New episode - listen now!

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FBI hacks into hundreds of infected US servers (and disinfects them)

Hacking for good! A judge said I could!

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IoT bug report claims “at least 100M devices” may be impacted

The programmers among us are learning... but not always quickly enough, it seems. Here's some food for coding thought...

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