Security News

Phone Hack Uses Sensors To Steal PINs (Threatpost)
2017-04-12 20:00

University researchers created a browser-based JavaScript that leverages a phone's smart device sensor data to steal PINs.

Baseband Zero Day Exposes Millions of Mobile Phones to Attack (Threatpost)
2017-04-07 20:10

A previously undisclosed baseband vulnerability impacting Huawei smartphones, laptop WWAN modules and IoT components was revealed Thursday at the Infiltrate Conference

Many Android Phones Vulnerable to Attacks Over Malicious Wi-Fi Networks (Schneier on Security)
2017-04-06 12:52

There's ablog post from Google's Project Zero detailing an attack against Android phones over Wi-Fi. From Ars Technica: The vulnerability resides in a widely used Wi-Fi chipset manufactured by...