EXPOSED Archive

How KYC data gets exposed through shoddy web-design

Harry Denley, a security analyst at open source crypto startup MyCrypto, was investigating a US-based crypto startup (unnamed) that a colleague had alerted him to. The startup’s site, registered anonymously, looked suspect for a myriad of reasons. For a start, the team photos posted on its website were fake. Its CMO,

HOW A BUG IN AN OBSCURE CHIP EXPOSED A BILLION SMARTPHONES TO HACKERS

IF YOU HAVEN’T updated your iPhone or Android device lately, do it now. Until very recent patches, a bug in a little-examined Wi-Fi chip would have allowed a hacker to invisibly hack into any one of a billion devices. Yes, billion with a b. A vulnerability that pervasive is rare,