Malicious Mac extensions steal crypto wallets and passwords

Mac users face new security threat as malware infiltrates trusted extension marketplaces, targeting cryptocurrency wallets ...

ConsentFix debrief: Insights from the new OAuth phishing attack

ConsentFix is an OAuth phishing technique abusing browser-based authorization flows to hijack Microsoft accounts. Push ...

Vault12 Open Source WebAuthn/Passkey Support for Electron on macOS: Enabling Touch ID and iCloud Keychain in Hybrid Desktop Apps

Vault12 announced today the open-source release of electron-webauthn-mac, a native WebAuthn/Passkey implementation for Electron apps on macOS only that ports Apple's platform authenticators (Touch ID ...
IEEE

A Novel Variable-Order Threshold Serial Belief Propagation-Based Decoding Algorithm for LT Codes

Abstract: The belief propagation (BP) algorithm is a widely adopted iterative decoding method for Luby transform (LT) codes. However, the conventional log-likelihood ratio BP (LLR-BP) decoder exhibits ...
GitHub

Dash Mac – API Doc Browser & Code Snippet Manager

Dash for Mac is a powerful API documentation browser and snippet manager designed for developers. It provides offline access to over 200 documentation sets. Dash is a powerful API documentation ...

39C3: Wheelchair Security – When a QR code bypasses all security mechanisms

An IT security researcher reveals how a wheelchair's QR code becomes a master key to all comfort functions.
IEEE

ELSP-MA: An Efficient Lightweight and Security-Enhanced Privacy-Preserving Message Authentication Scheme for VANETs

Abstract: Communication between vehicles via the wireless channel is faced with the hidden risk of privacy leakage in the vehicular ad-hoc network(VANET). Due to the ...
OS X Daily

Tidy Up Messages by Auto-Deleting Verification Codes on iPhone, Mac, iPad

Many services use two-factor authentication nowadays, where your phone or email address gets sent a code that you must enter as part of the login process into an online service. These codes are one ...