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Windows 11’s strongest security defenses can be bypassed without a screwdriver

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Windows 11’s strongest security defenses can be bypassed without a screwdriver 2026-08-17 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic Researchers from the University of Birmingham and Durham University have found a way to knock down some of the toughest protections in Windows 11 without physically opening or modifying the target machine. The attack assumes the attacker has […]

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US fuel gauge exposure fell by more than half in three months

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US fuel gauge exposure fell by more than half in three months 2026-08-07 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Every month for the better part of a year, about 4,800 US internet addresses answered a query in the protocol that fuel tank gauges speak. In June the number was 2,354. The count fell across April, May,

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15 TP-Link Omada vulnerabilities let attackers hijack routers and intercept camera traffic

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15 TP-Link Omada vulnerabilities let attackers hijack routers and intercept camera traffic 2026-08-05 at 12:35 By Mirko Zorz TP-Link prints the serial number of an Omada router on its packaging and on a label attached to the device. Those numbers run in sequence, and feeding a guessed one to the Omada cloud service returns the

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Exposed BMCs hand out password hashes before login

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Exposed BMCs hand out password hashes before login 2026-07-28 at 15:00 By Sinisa Markovic An attacker who reaches UDP port 623 on a server’s baseboard management controller can ask it for a password hash and receive one before logging in. The exchange is part of the IPMI 2.0 handshake, built on an authentication protocol introduced

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Nobody was checking the drives that encrypt your laptop

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Nobody was checking the drives that encrypt your laptop 2026-07-21 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec A drive ships with a label promising hardware encryption. You plug it in, set a password, and trust the chip inside to handle the rest. Millions of laptops and workstations run this way, on solid-state drives built to the TCG

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A hard drive reliability check on 341,263 drives, from 4TB to past 20TB

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A hard drive reliability check on 341,263 drives, from 4TB to past 20TB 2026-07-17 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Large cloud storage operators track their hard drives every day, recording which units keep running and which ones drop off the racks. Backblaze does this at scale, and its Q1 2026 report covers a fleet built

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An AI overthinking attack can tie a robot up for over a minute

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An AI overthinking attack can tie a robot up for over a minute 2026-07-15 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Robots that read the world through cameras now lean on large vision-language models to interpret what they see and decide what to do next. These models handle images and text together, so any words that fall

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Google adds FIDO2 keys and phone passkeys to Windows login via GCPW

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Google adds FIDO2 keys and phone passkeys to Windows login via GCPW 2026-07-14 at 13:35 By Anamarija Pogorelec Google has started rolling out FIDO2-compliant physical security key support as a second factor for authentication in Google Credential Provider for Windows (GCPW) to all Google Workspace customers. GCPW is a free tool that lets users sign

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A hardware security AI assistant that checks chips for hidden backdoors

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A hardware security AI assistant that checks chips for hidden backdoors 2026-07-13 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Chip designers license blocks of circuitry from outside vendors and drop them into larger products. A single processor can carry components from a range of suppliers, each written by a company the buyer may never deal with directly.

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Flipper Zero firmware development gets a fresh set of community rules

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Flipper Zero firmware development gets a fresh set of community rules 2026-07-06 at 07:57 By Sinisa Markovic Owners of the Flipper Zero, the pocket-sized wireless testing tool, spent recent weeks worried that its official firmware had gone quiet. Pavel Zhovner, CEO of Flipper Devices, moved to settle that concern with word that the company has

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Residential proxy SDKs are hiding in LG and Samsung smart TV apps

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Residential proxy SDKs are hiding in LG and Samsung smart TV apps 2026-06-23 at 08:08 By Anamarija Pogorelec Smart TVs in living rooms run small apps that show fish tanks, clocks, solitaire games, and slideshows of puppies. A share of those apps can also send other people’s internet traffic out through the home connection. Spur

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Securing digital keys when your phone unlocks the car

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Securing digital keys when your phone unlocks the car 2026-06-18 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Alysia Johnson, President of the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), explains how the CCC Digital Key has grown from a single-brand feature into a standard meant to work across phones, automakers, and suppliers. She

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A hardware neural network backdoor that hides in plain sight

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A hardware neural network backdoor that hides in plain sight 2026-06-15 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz Deep learning systems on phones, cars, and other edge devices increasingly run on custom silicon. Specialized chips such as FPGAs and ASICs give these systems the speed and low power consumption that edge applications need. Many of these chips

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Proving what a military AI model will do is the real problem

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Proving what a military AI model will do is the real problem 2026-06-15 at 07:30 By Sinisa Markovic Defense contractors build AI systems that task drones automatically and propose kill-chains to support soldiers. Several of these contractors have partnered with frontier AI companies to put advanced models into military tools. Anduril works with OpenAI, Palantir

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X Square Robot open sources its robot-free data collection framework

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X Square Robot open sources its robot-free data collection framework 2026-06-11 at 08:43 By Sinisa Markovic Companies building robots for physical work spend large amounts of time and money operating machines by hand to gather training examples. Each session with a physical robot produces a small number of demonstrations per day, which slows the growth

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The security in smartphones is helping send them to landfills

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The security in smartphones is helping send them to landfills 2026-06-10 at 09:55 By Mirko Zorz Billions of working smartphones reach the end of their service lives each year and move into drawers, recycling streams, and waste piles. The WEEE Forum estimated that 5.3 billion mobile phones became electronic waste in 2022. Many of these

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Thieves can pull off keyless car theft in under a minute and here’s how to stop them

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Thieves can pull off keyless car theft in under a minute and here’s how to stop them 2026-06-05 at 09:24 By Mirko Zorz A keyless car can be stolen in under a minute. Two people, a pair of cheap radio amplifiers, and a fob sitting on a hallway table inside the house. That is enough.

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Zero trust physical security needs trust decisions at the edge

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Zero trust physical security needs trust decisions at the edge 2026-06-02 at 09:09 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Chuck Davis, VP, Global Information Security at Hikvision, explains how zero trust applies to physical security systems like cameras and door controllers. He breaks down how to make trust decisions at the

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Meet Fractal, an OS made for microarchitecture reverse engineering

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Meet Fractal, an OS made for microarchitecture reverse engineering 2026-05-22 at 12:17 By Sinisa Markovic Probing how a CPU isolates user code from kernel code is messy work. Researchers patch kernels, write drivers, or boot stripped-down bare-metal programs, and any of those choices change variables they were trying to hold still. Fractal, a new operating

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Earbud sensors can authenticate users by their heartbeat, study finds

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Earbud sensors can authenticate users by their heartbeat, study finds 2026-05-19 at 09:17 By Mirko Zorz Researchers built a continuous authentication system called AccLock that identifies a wearer by the tiny vibrations a heartbeat makes inside the ear canal. The signal comes from an accelerometer of the kind already sitting inside many wireless earbuds, so

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