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SAN FRANCISCO - A serious vulnerability in Wi-Fi chips has been discovered that affects billions of devices worldwide, according to researchers. According to ESET, "[it] found KrØØk to be one of the possible causes behind the 'reinstallation' of an all-zero encryption key, observed in tests for KRACK attacks.
In recent years, burner phones have become an obligatory part of the international business traveler's toolkit. Though these devices are designed to minimize the amount of stored data available for capture by malicious actors in a foreign country, burner phones actually give attackers an opening to another, potentially more valuable, form of data: conversations that occur during key meetings in the vicinity of the device.
Researchers say that Amazon and Google need to focus on weeding out malicious skills from the getgo, rather than after they are already live.
Cisco has released security updates for a variety of its products – owners of Small Business RV Series Routers, Web Security Appliances and TelePresence devices should pay extra attention. Small...
Fireeye reports on a Chinese-sponsored espionage effort to eavesdrop on text messages: FireEye Mandiant recently discovered a new malware family used by APT41 (a Chinese APT group) that is...
Remember the FaceTime bug that allowed a caller to eavesdrop on your phone? Researchers just discovered another - this time in Signal.
The developers of the popular privacy-focused messaging application Signal have rushed to patch a serious vulnerability in the Android version that can be exploited by an attacker to eavesdrop on...
Episode 5 of the Naked Security Podcast is now live - listen now!
A newly disclosed vulnerability (CVE-2019-9506) in the Bluetooth Core Specification can be exploited by attackers to intercept and manipulate Bluetooth communications/traffic between two...
A Spearphone attacker can use the accelerometer in LG and Samsung phones to remotely eavesdrop on any audio that's played on speakerphone, including calls, music and voice assistant responses.