From The Hacker News – Behind the Scenes: The Art of Safeguarding Non-Human Identities

From The Hacker News – Behind the Scenes: The Art of Safeguarding Non-Human Identities

In the whirlwind of modern software development, teams race against time, constantly pushing the boundaries of innovation and efficiency. This relentless pace is fueled by an evolving tech landscape, where SaaS domination, the proliferation of microservices, and the ubiquity of CI/CD pipelines are not just trends but the new norm. Amidst this backdrop, a critical aspect subtly weaves into the
From The Hacker News – New ZenHammer Attack Bypasses Rowhammer Defenses on AMD CPUs

From The Hacker News – New ZenHammer Attack Bypasses Rowhammer Defenses on AMD CPUs

Cybersecurity researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a new variant of the RowHammer DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) attack that, for the first time, successfully works against AMD Zen 2 and Zen 3 systems despite mitigations such as Target Row Refresh (TRR). "This result proves that AMD systems are equally vulnerable to Rowhammer as Intel systems, which greatly increases the attack
From The Hacker News – Telegram Offers Premium Subscription in Exchange for Using Your Number to Send OTPs

From The Hacker News – Telegram Offers Premium Subscription in Exchange for Using Your Number to Send OTPs

In June 2017, a study of more than 3,000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students published by the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) found that 98% of them were willing to give away their friends' email addresses in exchange for free pizza. "Whereas people say they care about privacy, they are willing to relinquish private data quite easily when