Less than an hour into a Tinder date in a Moscow restaurant last year, Patrick Wardle began to wonder about the laptop he’d left in his hotel room. Wardle had come to the city for a security conference; as a former NSA staffer who’d worked on the elite …
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posted a video of the hack — a password exfiltration exploit — in action. Passwords are stored in the Mac’s Keychain, which typically requires a master login password to access the vault. But Wardle has shown that the vulnerability allows an attacker to …
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Wardle compared the Hacking Team Mac malware, available on Wikileaks after a 2015 breach … Furthermore, the FSB was not the Russian organization linked by the U.S. government to the DNC hack; the military intelligence arm, known as the GRU, was instead …
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Patrick Wardle, an ex-NSA hacker with a penchant for finding novel Apple Mac hacks, has proposed a new way snoops might spy on people via their webcams. No known malware does this, even if it’s a simple feature to add, said Wardle. “It’s conceivable …
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