It’s been several years since the Indian government has caught my attention by peddling a suspicious phone app, but they […]
Tag Archive for ‘Security’
Google vs. open-source sideloading
Via The Register: Google will extend developer verification to all Android apps, not just those installed from the Play Store, […]
Why Google created the “indirect prompt injection” vuln
Well, this happened at Google recently: Unlike direct prompt injections, where an attacker directly inputs malicious commands into a prompt, […]
Nice Tea narrative you’ve got there
Those of you who pay attention to infosec news at all will have heard about Tea, a women-only chat app […]
The CVE/MITRE thing
Here’s what CVE is, via The Register: The 25-year-old CVE program plays a huge role in vulnerability management. It is […]
This video game soundtrack came with some truly ham-fisted DRM
My last Nintendo console was a NES, so I know very little about Nintendo’s more recent offerings (other than what […]
And the next challenger is… WebAuthn
I have now seen an article about WebAuthn, the latest attempt by techies to replace the password. Previous attempts have […]
Dear Malawi24 and BlockAdblock: just no
I was whittling down my backlog of Twitter likes the other day, and I clicked a link to Malawi24. Most […]
The story: A malware campaign discovered by researchers for Kaspersky Lab this month was in fact a US military operation, […]
Ray of Infamy 