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The Global Positioning System (GPS) relies on its primary L1 frequency to broadcast precise timing and orbital data, allowing receivers on Earth to calculate their exact location. Because the L1 C/A signal transmits at just fifty bits per second, every bit of this navigation data must earn its place. Yet, within this…
Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme
When applying for a job at McDonald's, over 90% of franchises use "Olivia," an AI-powered chatbot. We discovered a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to access more than 64 million job applications. This data includes applicants' names, resumes, email addresses, phone numbers, and personality test results.
RISC-V International Staff RISC-V International’s staff bring together expertise from multiple disciplines to advance our mission of promoting the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). On the RISC-V blog, we highlight...
 UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key.
As part of our commitment to security, we regularly monitor our services for actual, suspected, or attempted malicious or unusual activity. We recently investigated reports of an uptick of users recei[..]
When I first learned about Diffie-Hellman and especially elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman, I had one rather obvious question: Why elliptic curves? Why use this strange group that seems rather arbitrar…
Some people change their SSH port on their servers so that it is slightly harder to find for bots or other nasties and while that is generally viewed as an action of security through obscurity it does work very well at killing a lot of the automated logins you always see in /var/log/auth.log .
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Daniel Lehmann, University of Stuttgart; Johannes Kinder, Bundeswehr University Munich; Michael Pradel, University of Stuttgart
We’re sharing details about three deceptive networks we took down during the last quarter.
The Latest News from Research at Kudelski Security
Every year or so, something compels me to start over with a fresh OS image. Most recently, that something was an unfortunate water bottle incident. Once again, I need to pull down my digital life from the internet. The code and assets for this blog currently live in a 500 MB Git repository, which was hosted on…
Over the past one and a half years, we have studied two phenomena that enable an unprivileged attacker to leak arbitrary information on all modern AMD CPUs:
Vulnerabilities discovered by Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos. Many of the wide variety of file formats are designed for specialized uses within specific industries. Apple offers APIs as interfaces to provide a definitive way to access image data for multiple image formats on the Apple OS X platform. Talos is
Anthropic's new system, Clio, analyzes how people use AI while maintaining their privacy.
Let’s talk about DNS. After all, what could go wrong? It’s just cache invalidation and naming things .
With heavy hearts, we announce that Felix “FX” Lindner —a cherished friend, and the founder and owner of Recurity Labs—passed away on 2026-03-01.
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We discovered that, until recently, Google Public DNS was theoretically vulnerable to a DNS cache poisoning attack on DNSSEC-signed domain names. Google fixed the vulnerability as a result of our report
This article will describe the possibility of hiding data in any kind of USB hardware. Even though USB data carriers come in various sizes and forms, which already sometimes makes them hard to recognize, this approach could even make it worse. Any USB device could be a data carrier and thus from a forensics point of…
TAG’s discovery of a 0-day exploit used to steal email data from international government organizations.
I had another instance of my Apple ID mysteriously being locked. First, my iPhone wanted me to enter the password again, which I thought was the “normal” thing it has done every few months, almost since I got it. But after doing so it said that my account was locked.
A look at diversity of MX records across all gTLDs and the Top 1M domains, indicating where SMTP is concentrated and what organizations might have broad access to the world's emails.
Today Facebook announced the roll-out of its Off-Facebook Activity tool (initially introduced as “Clear History” nearly two years ago). The tools shows you a list of apps, websites, and businesses that Facebook knows you have visited through its business tools (including Facebook Login, Facebook’s...
