Last year independent hacker Moxie Marlinspike created a tool call SSLstrip to invisibly remove the SSL protections on secure sites when a user click through from an insecure site.
Nine days after the hacker Comex and his band of underground coders released a new jailbreaking tool for the iPhone and iPad, Apple has released an update to iOS that prevents the hack.
On Wednesday, the hacker who goes by the name Comex released JailbreakMe 3, a simple jailbreaking tool that allows iPhone and iPad users to break the protections that prevent unauthorized app installs simply by visiting Jailbreakme.com.
In a talk at the Black Hat security conference in Barcelona Thursday, Greek researcher Thanassis Giannetsos plans to present a new software tool that he and two colleagues have written that they say would allow a malicious hacker to penetrate a sensor network and change or delete data at will.
On Wednesday Marlinspike, a hacker and cybersecurity researcher, introduced a new, even-more-private version of the GoogleSharing privacy tool he launched eight months ago.