August 10, 2023

Attacker combines phone, email lures into believable, complex attack chain

A social engineering phone call lends authenticity to the attacker's malicious email

Threat Research

August 21, 2020

Using AI to fight hand-crafted Business Email Compromise

Using natural language models to identify Business Email Compromise (BEC)

Naked Security

October 01, 2019

Hacking 2020 voting systems is a ‘piece of cake’

That's how Senator Wyden described the results of DefCon's Voting Village, where all of 100 voting systems were easily picked apart by hackers.

Naked Security

September 19, 2019

Air Force to offer up a satellite to hackers at Defcon 2020

This year, the Air Force presented vetted hackers with a plane's subsystem, which they duly tore up. Next year, it will be a satellite.

Naked Security

August 15, 2019

‘NULL’ license plate gets security researcher $12K in tickets

The vanity plate sounded good in theory: maybe it would make his plate invisible to ALPR systems?!

Naked Security

August 13, 2019

Hacked devices can be turned into acoustic weapons

Security researcher Matt Wixey found that many gadgets aren't protected from being turned into hearing-damaging weapons. Or melting.

Naked Security

November 03, 2017

Senators act to SAVE voting machines

The bill calls for a “Cooperative Hack the Election Program”

Naked Security

October 17, 2017

The fix is in for hackable voting machines: use paper

There should be a paper trail for every vote

Naked Security

July 18, 2016

DARPA to stage an AI hacking tournament at DEF CON/Black Hat

Stand aside, slow-moving humans, as machines tear apart security defenses, digging out and automagically patching security holes!

Naked Security