There are various bug bounty programs, with Google being one of the forerunners in the field – Twitter was late to the party just joining in September 2014. The latest development is that Google is stopping the annual Pwnium hack fest aimed at the Chromium project to stop bug hoarding, which makes Pwnium essentially a […]
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Open Source Keykeriki Captures Wireless Keyboard Traffic
[ad] Another interesting attack, rather than going after the PC/Server this one goes after the data sent by wireless devices such as the wireless keyboards sold by Microsoft. The neat thing is by using a replay attack you could also send rogue inputs to the device. But then it serves Microsoft right for using XOR […]
Mac owned on 2nd day of Pwn2Own hack contest
[ad] I have been following this contest and was wondering which OS would be first to fall (if any) seen as though they were all fully patched and the latest versions. For those that don’t know Pwn2Own is a contest at CanSecWest open to anyone to hack a Windows, Linux or Mac OSX box with […]