Retrocomputing, Time To Hang Up The Original Hardware?
For those of us with penchant for older technology, there’s something special about operating with older hardware. Whether it’s a decades-old camera, a vintage keyboard, or a home computer from…
Reverse-Engineering Forgotten Konami Arcade Hardware
When fully-3D video games started arriving in the early 90s, some companies were more prepared for the change than others. Indeed, it would take nearly a decade of experimentation before…
Homebrew Optical Sensor Helps Your Diesel Pass the Smoke Test
We’ve all heard of the smoke test, and we know that it’s the lowest possible bar for performance of an electronic device. If it doesn’t burst into flames when power…
Developing a Custom WearOS Watch Face
When you think about customizing the face of a smartwatch, you probably imagine something akin to selecting a new wallpaper on an Android device, or maybe tweaking the color scheme…
Android Banking Trojan ‘Revive’ Targets Users of Spanish Financial Services
Said to be in its early stages of development, the malware — dubbed Revive by Italian cybersecurity firm Cleafy — was first observed on June 15, 2022, and distributed by…
OpenSSL 3.0.5 awaits release to fix potential security flaw
The latest version of OpenSSL v3, a widely used open-source library for secure networking using the TLS protocol, contains a memory corruption vulnerability that imperils x64 systems with Intel’s Advanced…
Vice Society Claims Ransomware Attack on Medical University of Innsbruck
The Vice Society ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for last week’s cyberattack against the Medical University of Innsbruck, which caused severe IT service disruption and the alleged theft of data.
Ukraine Targeted by Dark Crystal RAT (DCRat)
Potential victims likely received emails with a malicious attachment with identical Ukrainian file names, except using the Excel format. The spreadsheet contains malicious macros that if enabled, drop and execute…
Carnival Cruises to pay $1.25 million fine for 2019 data breach
Carnival Cruises has agreed to pay a $1.25 million fine after being sued by 46 attorneys general for its handling of a 2019 data breach that leaked information from 180,000…
Clever phishing method bypasses MFA using Microsoft WebView2 apps
A clever, new phishing technique uses Microsoft Edge WebView2 applications to steal victim’s authentication cookies, allowing threat actors to bypass multi-factor authentication when logging into stolen accounts.