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Hacking Door Locks and Car Locks (Or Anything Wireless)

August 2, 2017 By Teri Radichel

When a wireless device of any kind sends data from one location to another, the device needs to protect the data just as if it was traveling over a wired network. Unfortunately, that is often not the case as several security researchers proved at Black Hat and Def Con. Tools exist that allowed the researchers to capture data traveling over different types of wireless protocols … [Read more...]

DefCon Researcher Details Security Flaws in Bluetooth Locks

August 10, 2016 By The Editor

There are a lot of fascinating findings from Black Hat & DefCon last week, but this one might make you want to change your Bluetooth locks. Researcher Anthony Rose was testing his Bluetooth range-finding setup in his neighborhood, and was not only surprised to see Bluetooth locks popping up, but as he told Engadget, "I discovered plaintext passwords being sent that anybody … [Read more...]

Facebook Hacked- WSWiR Episode 74

August 23, 2013 By Corey Nachreiner

App Store Hole, LoL Breach, and Zuckerberg Hacked I'm back with our regular infosec news video summary, where I highlight the biggest or most interesting security stories from the week and share a few tips along the way. Today's episode covers a handful of software updates, the breach of a popular multiplayer arena battle game, some drama around a new Facebook vulnerability, … [Read more...]

Android Bitcoin Wallets Broken – WSWiR in Words

August 16, 2013 By Corey Nachreiner

Hacked Baby Monitors, Broken Bitcoins, and Apache Exploit Kits By the time you see this on Friday, I'll be hiking and camping in the Olympic National Forest. I'm taking a day off this week for an extended camping weekend. Unfortunately, that also means I did not have time to produce a full InfoSec summary video... but fear not. In lieu of this week's video, I'm leaving you … [Read more...]

TorSploit – WSWiR Episode 73

August 9, 2013 By Corey Nachreiner

BREACH, TorSploit, and Fort Disco Sorry for the late posting, but your weekly taste of "what's up" in the InfoSec world is here for your viewing pleasure. As always, I summarize some of this week's biggest network and information security news, in case you didn't have time to follow it yourself. This week was packed with security stories, but I only had time to focus on four. … [Read more...]

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