Dan Goodin

1 week ago | arstechnica.com | Dan Goodin

A California man has pleaded guilty to hacking an employee of The Walt Disney Company by tricking the person into running a malicious version of a widely used open source AI image generation tool. Ryan Mitchell Kramer, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of accessing a computer and obtaining information and one count of threatening to damage a protected computer, the US Attorney for the Central District of California said Monday.

1 week ago | technewstube.com | Dan Goodin

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1 week ago | arstechnica.com | Dan Goodin

BEWARE OF PICKPOCKETS AND HACKED SITES Attack that started in April and remains ongoing runs malicious code on visitors' devices. Dan Goodin – May 5, 2025 3:05 pm | Hundreds of e-commerce sites, at least one owned by a large multinational company, were backdoored by malware that executes malicious code inside the browsers of visitors, where it can steal payment card information and other sensitive data, security researchers said Monday.

1 week ago | arstechnica.com | Dan Goodin

WHEN BY DEFAULT ISN'T REALLY BY DEFAULT The move is part of an industry-wide push for users to adopt passkeys. Dan Goodin – May 2, 2025 4:14 pm | Microsoft says it’s making passwordless logins the default means for signing in to new accounts, as the company helps drive an industry-wide push to transition away from passwords and the costly security problems they have created for companies and their users.

1 week ago | arstechnica.com | Dan Goodin

I HEAR YOU KNOCKING, BUT YOU CAN'T COME IN Why multifactor authentication based on one-time-passwords and push notifications fail. Dan Goodin – May 1, 2025 5:00 pm | An entire cottage industry has formed around phishing attacks that bypass some of the most common forms of multifactor authentication (MFA) and allow even non-technical users to quickly create sites that defeat the protections against account takeovers.