A Super Bowl ad last week from cryptocurrency platform Coinbase featured a bouncing QR code that ruffled feathers in the cybersecurity community. Some experts say the risks of scanning it may have been overblown.
A team of North American researchers is developing a statistics-based technique to weed out falsehoods from social media platforms, with implications for election integrity, cybersecurity and COVID-19.
Multi-factor authentication offers users far more protection than a password alone. But experts warn it’s no panacea against hackers.
Cyberattacks targeting the “packages” that underpin global software programs have rattled the open-source community and exposed gaps in developers’ supply chain security practices.
With the threat of ransomware increasingly difficult for US policymakers to ignore, cryptocurrency exchanges should prepare to be the target of increasing regulatory scrutiny — or outright bans — in many countries.
A lot of it has to do with cryptocurrency fallacies, hacking buildings, bizarre contests, furs, bad IoT security and other wonderful and intriguing elements of infosec culture.
The legendary hacker con was less packed than usual — and some people liked it that way.
New research presented during Black Hat 2021 in Las Vegas on Wednesday reveals the important role of amateur, and amateurish, players in sustaining the cybercrime ecosystem.
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