Jailbreak bug in John Deere tractors drives right-to-repair wave
A hacker managed to jailbreak John Deere's software and hijack its vehicles by bypassing digital security locks.
John Deere is an agricultural vehicle manufacturing company that produces tractors, among others. A new jailbreak allows hackers to bypass digital security locks enforced by tractor m... Read more
Serious vulnerabilities found in 40 drivers with Microsoft certification
Eclypsium security researchers have found serious vulnerabilities in more than 40 drivers of 20 hardware vendors. The researchers presented their work at the Def Conference in Las Vegas.
According to the researchers, the vulnerabilities can easily be exploited by hackers to use malware, writes Sili... Read more
Hundreds of AWS backups leak sensitive data
Various companies, start-ups and governments are leaking their own files from the cloud. This is shown by new research presented at Def Con. The problem lies in the Elastic Block Storage snapshots by AWS.
The Elastic Block Storage (EBS) snapshots are, according to Ben Morris, a security analyst at B... Read more