Design flaw could open Bluetooth devices to hacking
Mobile apps that work with Bluetooth devices have an inherent design flaw that makes them vulnerable to hacking, new research has found.
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Telecom
Security problems found in 5G protocol
A combined team of researchers from the University of Iowa and Purdue University has found nearly a dozen security breaches in the 5G protocol. They have written a paper describing both their findings and a security breaching ...
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Researchers discover vulnerabilities affecting billions of computer chips
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) security researchers Berk Sunar and Daniel Moghimi led an international team of researchers that discovered serious security vulnerabilities in computer chips made by Intel Corp. and ...
Nov 12, 2019
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Software
Firefox: No-exit browser scammers want you to call bogus support
This week tech watchers were sending out headlines about scammers taking advantage of a Firefox bug to freeze users out of their browser. The punch-up consists of a user getting a warning message and then browser lockout. ...
Nov 08, 2019 weblog
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OpenTitan for data centers: Google, partners push secure silicon design
The Google Security Blog on Tuesday announced OpenTitan as an open source chip design, where other organizations have joined Google in an effort to further rise the bar on security surrounding the original Titan chip.
Nov 07, 2019 weblog
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Consumer & Gadgets
When a light is a thief that tells your garage door to open
Shining lasers at voice assistants like Alexa and Siri, researchers from Michigan and Japan achieved a hack where lasers had the power of commands from the human voice.
Nov 06, 2019 weblog
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BlueKeep exploit in the wild is not devastating but sleuths stay cautious
A security exploit called BlueKeep is in the wild. Security watchers on numerous sites all reported that researchers had spotted evidence of exploitation. HotHardware said that so far the signs were that affected machines ...
Nov 05, 2019 weblog
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Popular third-party genetic genealogy site is vulnerable to compromised data, impersonations
DNA testing services like 23andMe, Ancestry.com and MyHeritage are making it easier for people to learn about their ethnic heritage and genetic makeup. People can also use genetic testing results to connect to potential relatives ...
Oct 29, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Supercomputer analyzes web traffic across entire internet
Using a supercomputing system, MIT researchers have developed a model that captures what web traffic looks like around the world on a given day, which can be used as a measurement tool for internet research and many other ...
Oct 28, 2019
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How voice assistants follow inaudible commands
An attack against speech recognition systems with manipulated audio files used to work only via a data interface. Now, all it takes is playing the secret messages via loudspeakers.
Oct 23, 2019
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