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Researchers investigate potential threat to speech privacy via smartphone motion sensors

Could smartphone motion sensors be used by cybercriminals to record speech? It is a question that many academic and industry researchers are working to answer in order to ward off this kind of malicious use before it happens.

Security

Jun 15, 2018
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Cortana vulnerability has been patched

Microsoft has a security update regarding Cortana and it's worth a look.

Security

Jun 14, 2018
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Firmware, blind spots flagged by Spectre attack research

Software vulnerability discoveries by security researchers come and go and are more often than not promptly followed by vendor fixes. After each headline scare, you read the labs' reports, you hear about the fixes, and well, ...

Security

May 22, 2018
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Well, that was easy: Two-factor authentication hack feeds on phony e-mail

Two-factor authentication can be beat, as a hacker demo has shown. Lots of attention is being paid to a video posted where Kevin Mitnick, KnownBe4 chief hacking officer, revealed the two-factor exploit.

Security

May 14, 2018
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Security researchers outwit, bypass popular email encryption

Germany's cybersecurity agency says German and Belgian researchers have found a way to outwit two widely used forms of email encryption.

Security

May 14, 2018
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How silent signals from your phone could be recording and tracking you

My lounge room is bugged. My phone is broadcasting an ultrasonic signal to my blu-ray player via an acoustic side channel beyond human hearing.

Consumer & Gadgets Security

May 10, 2018
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Cryptojacking spreads across the web

Right now, your computer might be using its memory and processor power – and your electricity – to generate money for someone else, without you ever knowing. It's called "cryptojacking," and it is an offshoot of the rising ...

Security

May 08, 2018
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Soft terms like 'open' and 'sharing' don't tell the true story of your data

The Turnbull government today announced the creation of a new National Data Commissioner to oversee the implementation of greater data access and "sharing" in Australia.

Internet Security

May 01, 2018
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Amazon has mitigations so that Alexa does not turn into eavesdropper

Amazon has fixed a potential exploit discovered by Checkmarx. The latter's researchers said that Alexa could possibly keep tabs on you even if you were totally unaware that malicious outsiders were turning your Echo into ...

Security

Apr 27, 2018
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F-Secure finds a way to hack older RFID based hotel key locks

A pair of researchers at F-Secure, Timo Hirvonen and Tomi Tuominen, has reported to the press that they have found a way to hack some older RFID-based hotel room key locks. They are also planning to give a presentation outlining ...

Security

Apr 26, 2018
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Princeton's tech watchers shine glaring light on web tracking, data slurping

Hidden online trackers are hardly secure in their hiding place, not after this week's headlines for stories about how Facebook user information can be nabbed. The information can be obtained on various websites that support ...

Security

Apr 21, 2018
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PowerHammer is wake-up call to data-stealing through power lines

Can security sleuths ever complain there's nothing left to do? The answer is obvious, and one more path to mischief has been recognized in the form of power supplies serving as a data exfiltration tool. It appears that malware ...

Security

Apr 18, 2018
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The public has a vital role to play in preventing future cyber attacks

Up to 400 Australian organisations may have been snared in a massive hacking incident detailed today. The attack, allegedly engineered by the Russian government, targeted millions of government and private sector machines ...

Security

Apr 17, 2018
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Internet to TLS 1.3: Where have you been all my life

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which is the premier Internet standards body, has given its nod of approval for something that will make the Web more secure. It is called Transport Layer Security version 1.3.

Security

Mar 28, 2018
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A 15-year-old said he discovered vulnerability in hardware wallet

Headlines hummed with the discovery by a 15-year-old Saleem Rashid of a vulnerability he found in Ledger hardware wallets. He blogged about in on March 20.

Security

Mar 22, 2018
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New study presents method to stop cyber attacks on GPS-enabled devices

A new study by researchers Nikolaos Gatsis, David Akopian and Ahmad F. Taha and their graduate student Ali Khalajmehrabadi from the UTSA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering describes a computer algorithm that ...

Security

Mar 19, 2018
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Attacks on 4G LTE networks could send fake emergency alerts

Researchers have identified several new vulnerabilities in 4G LTE networks, potentially allowing hackers to forge the location of a mobile device and fabricate messages.

Security

Mar 14, 2018
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Researchers find 'critical' security flaws in AMD chips

Security researchers said Tuesday they discovered flaws in chips made by Advanced Micro Devices that could allow hackers to take over computers and networks.

Security

Mar 13, 2018
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Off-the-shelf smart devices found easy to hack

Off-the-shelf devices that include baby monitors, home security cameras, doorbells, and thermostats were easily co-opted by cyber researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). As part of their ongoing research ...

Security

Mar 13, 2018
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When the Internet goes down

"A third of the Internet is under attack. Millions of network addresses were subjected to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over two-year period," reports Warren Froelich on the UC San Diego News Center website. ...

Security

Mar 02, 2018
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New system patches security holes left open by web browsers' private-browsing functions

Today, most web browsers have private-browsing modes, in which they temporarily desist from recording the user's browsing history.

Security

Feb 23, 2018
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Real-time Captcha technique improves biometric authentication

A new login authentication approach could improve the security of current biometric techniques that rely on video or images of users' faces. Known as Real-Time Captcha, the technique uses a unique "challenge" that's easy ...

Security

Feb 19, 2018
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MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Researchers nail exploits

Research from authors with affiliations that include Princeton and NVIDIA has drawn interest with their paper, "MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols," ...

Security

Feb 17, 2018
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Energy-efficient encryption for the internet of things

Most sensitive web transactions are protected by public-key cryptography, a type of encryption that lets computers share information securely without first agreeing on a secret encryption key.

Security

Feb 13, 2018
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Are air gaps entirely impermeable? Then you don't know Ben-Gurion team's research

We read many stories about security sleuths who discover how thieves and mischief-makers break into accounts and networks to plant bad stuff and steal personal data.

Security

Feb 11, 2018
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