Security News

Researchers hack Corvette via SMS to plugged-in tracking dongle (Help Net Security)
2015-08-12 14:00

A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, have managed to hack a Corvette via specially crafted SMS messages sent to a tracking dongle (i.e. a telematic control unit) plugged...

Tracking the Psychological Effects of the 9/11 Attacks (Schneier on Security)
2015-06-30 11:27

Interesting research from 2012: "The Dynamics of Evolving Beliefs, Concerns, Emotions, and Behavioral Avoidance Following 9/11: A Longitudinal Analysis of Representative Archival Samples":...

Tracking People By Smart Phone Accelerometers (Schneier on Security)
2015-06-08 11:09

Interesting research: "We Can Track You If You Take the Metro: Tracking Metro Riders Using Accelerometers on Smartphones": Abstract: Motion sensors (e.g., accelerometers) on smartphones have been...

Privacy Proponents Rally In Favor of Tracking Protection in Firefox (Threatpost)
2015-06-03 18:21

Privacy advocates are calling on Mozilla to better deploy Tracking Protection, a technology that offers more stringent privacy and speeds up page loads by blocking requests to tracking domains, in...