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Last year, researchers highlighted a WhatsApp vulnerability that can let an attacker alter users’ conversations. Despite disclosure, Facebook failed to fix the flaws. This year, researchers have deployed a WhatsApp Protocol Decryptor tool as well. The tool makes it much easier to exploit the flaw, as well as to decrypt the famous WhatsApp encryption. Researchers […]
Yeah, I know it doesn’t sound right, but this is what researchers have come up with. At the ongoing Black Hat conference in the USA, security researchers showed a weird method to hack Apple’s Face ID biometric system. The hack involves a pair of glasses with tape on them, fooling the Attention Detection feature of […]
In another interesting research work presented at Black Hat USA 2018, a group of researchers from Kzen Networks and Isreal Institute of Technology’s Ron Marcovich and Yuval Ron has revealed a flaw in Cortana that allowed them to bypass the lock screen and execute arbitrary codes. Dubbed as ‘Open Sesame,’ the flaw exploits a computer […]
Short Bytes: At the Black Hat 2016 hacker conference in Las Vegas, the world saw a variety of cutting-edge cyber security applications. Some of these hacks stood out from the others and gained widespread praises. Here’s a quick recap of the 5 best Black Hat 2016 hacks, including the likes of famous Jeep Cherokee hackers […]