Security News > 2016 > November > Week in review: PoisonTap compromises locked computers, how hackers will exploit IoT in 2017 (Help Net Security)

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, podcasts, reviews and articles: Researchers reveal WiFi-based mobile password discovery attack A group of researchers has come up with WindTalker, a new attack method for discovering users’ passwords and PINs as they enter them into their smartphones. New users flock to ProtonMail in wake of Trump’s victory ProtonMail is a Swiss-based secure email service launched by a group of CERN and MIT scientists in … More →
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