Spyware Hunters Are Expanding Their Toolset
The surveillance-for-hire industry's powerful mobile spyware tools have gotten increasing attention lately as tech companies and governments grapple with the…
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The Feds Gear Up for a Privacy Crackdown
We’ve also looked at how new data rulings in Europe could stop Meta from sending data from the EU to the US, potentially prompting app blackouts across the…
Sloppy Software Patches Are a ‘Disturbing Trend’
The whole purpose of vulnerability disclosure is to notify software developers about flaws in their code so they can create fixes, or patches, and improve…
Google’s Android Red Team Had a Full Pixel 6 Pwn Before Launch
When Google launched the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro in October 2021, one of its key features was its custom Tensor system-on-a-chip processor and the security…
The Hacking of Starlink Terminals Has Begun
“From a high-level view, there are two obvious things that you could try to attack: the signature verification or the hash verification,” Wouters says. The…
Messaging Apps Have an Eavesdropping Problem
In early 2019, an eavesdropping bug in group FaceTime calls would have let attackers activate the microphone, and even the camera, of the iPhone they were…
Watch a Hacker Hijack a Capsule Hotel’s Lights, Fans, and Beds
Kyasupā wondered if he could hack his hotel's iPod Touch controls after they handed it to him at check in, but he didn't want to waste his vacation time…
Hospitals Still Use Pneumatic Tubes—and They Can Be Hacked
It's all too common to find hackable flaws in medical devices, from mammography machines and CT scanners to pacemakers and insulin pumps. But it turns out…