November 2021

Chinese Payment-Terminal Company Raided By The FBI

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In furtherance of a federal investigation the FBI has searched the Florida premises of a Chinese payment-terminal provider. This comprised of the warehouse and offices belonging to Pax Technology. Pax was founded two decades ago and is headquartered in Shenzhen. According to its website, the company has delivered over 57 million terminals to more than […]

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Trojan Source: A New Technique Allowing Hackers Hide Vulnerabilities in Source Code

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Dubbed “Trojan Source attacks,” the technique “exploits subtleties in text-encoding standards such as Unicode to produce source code whose tokens are logically encoded in a different order from the one in which they are displayed, which eventually leads to a vulnerability which could not have been perceived by direct human code review. The vulnerability affects

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