Security News

Do the Police Need a Search Warrant to Access Cell Phone Location Data? (Schneier on Security)
2017-08-17 11:12

The US Supreme Court is deciding a case that will establish whether the police need a warrant to access cell phone location data. This week I signed on to an amicus brief from a wide array of...

Week in review: iOS zero-days exploited, hacking cellphone towers and brain implants (Help Net Security)
2016-08-28 12:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles: Backdoor uses TeamViewer to spy on victims A backdoor Trojan with spying capabilities that has been...

Hackers can easily take over cellphone towers, researchers found (Help Net Security)
2016-08-24 18:39

Zimperium researchers have unearthed three critical vulnerabilities in widely used software running on base transceiver stations (BTS), i.e. the equipment that makes cellphone towers work....