Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity

Now sites have a new way to spy on their visitors: measuring subtle interactions with their solid-state drives. The technique ...

MESCIUS USA, Inc. Introduces Document Solutions for PDF JS for Document Solutions Product Line

MESCIUS USA, Inc., a global provider of award-winning enterprise software development tools, is pleased to announce a new product for the Document Solutions product line: Document Solutions PDF JS.
ZME Science

Another Way Browsers Can Spy on You: Listening to Your Hard Drive

Researchers have shown that a web page can watch for tiny slowdowns in a computer’s storage drive and use those delays to guess which websites someone visits or which apps they open. The technique is ...
How-To Geek on MSN

VLC is overrated, and this open-source alternative is much better

Discover the hidden gem of media players that power users have been quietly enjoying for years, and find out why it's time to ...
Opinion
HackadayOpinion

This Week In Security: Ubiquiti Fixes, And FreeBSD Joins The Club You Don’t Want To Join

Ubiquiti released a new security bulletin detailing fixes for six security issues, including one rated 9.1 (critical) and one scoring a perfect 10.0 on the CVE risk scale. The vulnerabilities ...
Infosecurity Magazine

PureLogs Variant Steals Data via Purchase Order Lures

The PureLogs module targeted a wide range of browsers, including Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera, Yandex Browser, ...

Web browsers can spy on information via SSD access times

IT researchers have demonstrated a side-channel attack called "FROST" where browsers can spy on user behavior via SSD access times.
Decrypt

Perplexity Built a Tool That Checks Your Computer for Infected Software—Without Setting Off the Infection

Bumblebee from Perplexity scans developer machines for compromised packages and AI tool configs, without triggering malware.
Tom's Hardware on MSN

Researchers say they can spy on your browsing by measuring SSD activity through a browser API

FROST exploits the Origin Private File System (OPFS), a browser API that lets websites create and store files on a user's local disk.

FROST Side-Channel Attack Turns SSD Activity Into A New Browser Privacy Nightmare

By discreetly measuring EM leaks and SSD operations, attackers leveraging the FROST attack can effectively spy on browser activity from a single open tab.
The Business Journals

Tampa hotel files to evict Pach's Place a second time in yearslong feud

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The owners of the Tahitian Inn ...