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LightAnchors array: LEDs in routers, power strips, and more, can sneakily ship data to this smartphone app
2019-12-12 08:02

Talk about gone in a flash Video A pentad of bit boffins have devised a way to integrate electronic objects into augmented reality applications using their existing visible light sources, like...

LightAnchors array: LEDs in routers, power strips, and more, can covertly ship data to this smartphone app
2019-12-12 08:02

Talk about gone in a flash Video A pentad of bit boffins have devised a way to integrate electronic objects into augmented reality applications using their existing visible light sources, like...

Extracting Data from Smartphones
2019-12-11 12:19

Privacy International has published a detailed, technical examination of how data is extracted from smartphones....

Brand new Android smartphones shipped with 146 security flaws
2019-11-19 13:16

If you think brand new, just-out-of-the-box Android smartphones are immune from security vulnerabilities - think again.

Smartphone and speaker voice assistants can be hacked using lasers
2019-11-06 13:03

Researchers have discovered that some voice assistants will accept “signal injection” commands sent to them using pulses of laser light.

WhatsApp vulnerability could compromise Android smartphones
2019-10-04 12:10

A researcher has released details of a WhatsApp flaw that could be used to compromise the app and the mobile device the app is running on.

Report: Encrypted Smartphone Takedown Outed Canadian Mole
2019-09-17 11:33

After Arresting Phantom Secure CEO, Authorities Reportedly Saw Secrets for SaleThe Canadian government has arrested a senior intelligence official on charges of working as a mole. He was...

Is your smartphone secretly listening to you?
2019-09-09 12:46

The question of whether our smartphones are always listening to us is cropping up on online forums and Twitter almost daily, and most users have had the experience of talking about something then,...

Researchers were able to detect what is typed using just a smartphone
2019-08-19 05:15

You likely know to avoid suspicious emails to keep hackers from gleaning personal information from your computer. But a new study from SMU (Southern Methodist University) suggests that it’s...

World recoils in horror as smartphone maker accused of helping government snoops read encrypted texts, track device whereabouts
2019-08-15 06:29

Thinking US again? You'd be wrong Comment In a report that has left lawmakers across the globe reeling, the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday claimed a smartphone maker helped government officials...