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def con

15 articles

Shrinking your digital footprint: a checklist by Kaspersky
  • privacy

How to shrink your digital footprint

Adjust your daily routines to leave as little data about yourself online as possible.

  • Tom Fosters

  • July 8, 2025

How vulnerable Ecovacs robot vacuums are being hacked
  • def con

Ecovacs robot vacuums get hacked

Unknown hackers are exploiting newly discovered vulnerabilities in Ecovacs robot vacuums to spy on their owners and rain misery upon them.

  • Kaspersky Team

  • January 9, 2025

Vulnerable Cisco updates
  • vulnerabilities

Vulnerable updates in Cisco enterprise software

How even high-end solutions for business can have “childish” bugs in their update delivery systems.

  • Bender the Robot

  • October 4, 2022

Vulnerability in Zoom for macOS
  • vulnerabilities

A Zoom vulnerability, and the war between the hackers and the developers

Takeaway from DEF CON 30: vulnerability in Zoom for macOS.

  • Enoch Root

  • September 7, 2022

  • def con

Farm equipment security at DEF CON 29

At DEF CON 29, a researcher explained why agricultural machinery should be considered critical infrastructure and demonstrated vulnerabilities in the main manufacturers’ equipment.

  • Enoch Root

  • October 11, 2021

  • def con

8 fun facts about fax. Yes, fax!

Which is older, the phone or the fax? Is it true that no one faxes anymore? And can a fax machine be hacked? (Spoiler: yes)

  • Alex Drozhzhin

  • September 4, 2018

  • def con

MitM and DoS attacks on domains through the use of residual certificates

Due to certification centers specifics, it is not rare for other people to hold a valid HTTPS certificate for your domain. What can go wrong?

  • Alex Drozhzhin

  • August 29, 2018

  • def con

Man-in-the-Disk: A new and dangerous way to hack Android

How a seemingly harmless Android application can infect your smartphone using shared external storage.

  • Alex Drozhzhin

  • August 27, 2018

  • def con

Hijacking online accounts through voicemail

When it comes to online accounts, voicemail is a major security hole. Here’s why.

  • Alex Drozhzhin

  • August 17, 2018

Hacking chemical plant
  • black hat

Hacking a chemical plant

Since there’s nothing unhackable in this world, why should chemical plants should be the exception?

  • Alex Drozhzhin

  • August 19, 2015

DEF CON 23: Tell me who you are and I will tell you your lock screen pattern
  • cybersavvy

Tell me who you are and I will tell you your lock screen pattern

Predictability of human beings can barely be overestimated when it comes to passwords. But what about lock screen patterns, are we predictable as well when we’re creating them?

  • Alex Drozhzhin

  • August 11, 2015

DEF CON 23: Researchers hack Tesla S — the company patches cars quickly
  • car hacking

Tesla Model S being hacked and patched blazing-fast

Researchers compete at finding security holes in infotainment systems of connected cars and breaking in. The new case proves that Tesla does care a lot about security at wheel.

  • Kate Kochetkova

  • August 10, 2015

DEF CON 23: How to kill a human with a keyboard
  • def con

How to kill a human with a keyboard

Security researcher Chris Rock discovered, that it’s very easy to kill a human. All you need is just a computer with Internet access, some knowledge and common sense.

  • Alex Drozhzhin

  • August 8, 2015

  • APT

A Week in the News: Previewing Black Hat, DEF CON

In the news this week: more APT campaigns, a look forward at the DEF CON and Black Hat Hacker conferences, and good and bad news for Facebook.

  • Brian Donohue

  • August 1, 2014

  • APT

Kaspersky Daily July 2014 Monthly News Podcast

In the news: Microsoft’s No-IP takedown fiasco, Chinese APT groups curious about U.S. Iraq policy, Verizon says the government wants locations data, and Microsoft denies backdoor insinuations.

  • Brian Donohue

  • August 1, 2014

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