How Hackers Extracted the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ to Clone HID Keycards

Andy Greenberg

A team of researchers have developed a method for extracting authentication keys out of HID encoders, which could allow hackers to clone the types of keycards used to secure offices and other areas worldwide.

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Apple Prototypes and Corporate Secrets Are for Sale Online—If You Know Where to Look

Lily Hay Newman

On the hunt for corporate devices being sold secondhand, a researcher found a trove of Apple corporate data, a Mac Mini from the Foxconn assembly line, an iPhone 14 prototype, and more.

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ATM Software Flaws Left Piles of Cash for Anyone Who Knew to Look

Lily Hay Newman

Six vulnerabilities in ATM-maker Diebold Nixdorf’s popular Vynamic Security Suite could have been exploited to control ATMs using “relatively simplistic attacks.”

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Nearly All Google Pixel Phones Exposed by Unpatched Flaw in Hidden Android App

Lily Hay Newman

A fix is coming, but data analytics giant Palantir says it’s ditching Android devices altogether because Google’s response to the vulnerability has been troubling.

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‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections

Andy Greenberg

Researchers warn that a bug in AMD’s chips would allow attackers to root into some of the most privileged portions of a computer—and that it has persisted in the company’s processors for decades.

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Thousands of Corporate Secrets Were Left Exposed. This Guy Found Them All

Matt Burgess

Security researcher Bill Demirkapi found more than 15,000 hardcoded secrets and 66,000 vulnerable websites—all by searching overlooked data sources.

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