Security News

Bugs in Signal Messaging App Corrupt Attachments, Crash App (Threatpost)
2016-09-16 18:11

Signal has fixed bugs in its Android messaging app that allow an attacker to corrupt an encrypted attachment and remotely crash the application.

Using Wi-Fi Signals to Identify People by Body Shape (Schneier on Security)
2016-08-30 17:57

Another paper on using Wi-Fi for surveillance. This one is on identifying people by their body shape. "FreeSense:Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals": Abstract: Human identification...

Keystroke Recognition Uses Wi-Fi Signals To Snoop (Threatpost)
2016-08-25 18:19

Researchers develop WiKey technology that can sniff out keystrokes with 97.5 percent accuracy using an off-the-shelf Wi-Fi router and a $200 laptop.