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Security engineer ports password cracker hashcat to Gameboy Advance — 16.8 MHz chip can perform a meager 727 hashes a second, 30 million times slower than a modern rig
9+ hour, 18+ min ago (111+ words) Tom's Hardware Premium equips you with world-class coverage and detailed insights into the evolving hardware landscape. Unlock benchmarks, deep dives and roadmaps for $29.00/year. Hey, it's better than nothing in this day and age. The gba-hashcat software is the brainchild…...
Robot vacuum flaw lets one stolen certificate run root commands on other Shark robovacs in the same AWS region — unpatched flaw exposes live camera feeds, stored home maps, and Wi-Fi credentials
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Windows 95 didn’t detect installers, it ‘guessed’ based on the file name, says veteran dev — it simply checked for words like setup, install, inst, or localized equivalents
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (205+ words) Tom's Hardware Unlock benchmarks, deep dives and roadmaps for £25.00/year. The file check was often deferred until the next boot rather than run immediately, with Chen explaining that some installers, unable to replace a file already in use, would drop…...
Chat Control 1.0 sneaks through the EU Parliament, letting companies scan user data without warrants — legal tactic used to force a majority-required re-vote on eve of Parliament break
1+ week, 1+ day ago (442+ words) Unlock benchmarks, deep dives and roadmaps for £25.00/year. Opponents to the rule suggest the maneuver is unprecedented. After the impending publication in the EU Official Journal, online direct-communication platforms will be allowed to mass-scan their users' data without the need…...
New hack exploits AI hallucinations to trick agents into running malicious code — 'HalluSquatting' attack exploits a fundamental weakness in every available model
1+ week, 2+ day ago (197+ words) Unlock benchmarks, deep dives and roadmaps for £25.00/year. Today, a tale from the book of We Told You So. The attacker then creates a malicious repository using those generated names. When Claude or another code agent is asked to "run…...
China alleges that Claude Code contains backdoors, calls mechanism 'a serious threat' — Gov't claims Claude sends sensitive information to remote servers without consent
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Hidden backdoor in Tenda routers goes unpatched as company ignores warnings from cybersecurity researchers — Chinese company's firmware allows admin access without a password
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Modding tool 'DLSS Swapper' might infect your PC with malware if you download the wrong files — App creator warns against using random, user-submitted DLLs
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Arrest and extradition of Scattered Spider hacker shines light on how Windows telemetry GDIDs can identify and track users — Microsoft device identifier is just one digital fingerprint in a software world rife with them
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Windows 11 identifier code used to track Scattered Spider perp after Microsoft shared info with FBI — 19-year-old US-Estonian hacker arrested over alleged ties to infamous extortion group
1+ week, 6+ day ago (149+ words) Windows 11 identifier used to track Scattered Spider perp after Microsoft shared info with FBI — 19-year-old US-Estonian hacker arrested over alleged ties to infamous extortion group Tom's Hardware Get started with free access to reviews, badges and discussions. Unlock exclusive tools…...