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Researcher Reports Vulnerability in Apple iCloud Domain

22nd February 2021Dark Reading Staff

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the iCloud website reportedly earned a security researcher $5,000. Source: Dark Reading – Threat Intelligence – [...]

Researcher Breaks reCAPTCHA With Google’s Speech-to-Text API

4th January 2021Becky Bracken

Researcher uses an old unCAPTCHA trick against latest the audio version of reCAPTCHA, with a 97 percent success rate. Source: Threat Post [...]

Researcher Developed New Kernel-Level Exploits for Old Vulns in Windows

10th December 2020Jai Vijayan Contributing Writer

Problem has to do with a print driver component found in all versions of Windows going back to Windows 7, security researcher from [...]

Google Security Researcher Develops 'Zero-Click' Exploit for iOS Flaw

3rd December 2020Jai Vijayan Contributing Writer

A new patched memory corruption vulnerability in Apple’s AWDL protocol can be used to take over iOS devices that are in close proximity [...]

Did a Security Researcher Guess Trump's Twitter Password?

24th October 2020Brian Barrett

Plus: An Among Us spam attack, China’s favorite vulnerabilities, and more of the week’s top security news. Source: Wired – Did a [...]

Researcher: I Hacked Trump’s Twitter by Guessing Password

22nd October 2020Becky Bracken

Trump’s weak Twitter password and lack of basic two-factor authentication protections made it shockingly simple to hack his account, Dutch security researcher Victor [...]

UVA Researcher Charged with Computer Intrusion & Trade Secret Theft

31st August 2020Dark Reading Staff

Chinese national Haizhou Hu was researching bio-mimics and fluid dynamics at the University of Virginia. Source: Dark Reading – Threat Intelligence – [...]