What about the one with a smartwatch? Snoopers can catch your code from nearly 10 feet away with Google Glass or Samsung’s smartwatch and from almost 150 away using a HD camcorder, thanks to researchers’ custom-coded, shadow-tracking recognition algorithm.
Tag Archives: Mobile
‘Yo’ app hacked by college students, hires one of the hackers
A Georgia Tech student claims he and two roommates were able to get any user’s phone number, that they texted the founder (who, he said, called him back), to spam any user, and to send any text they want. Now it looks like one of them will be working for the company.
Google and Microsoft want to kill your phone if it’s stolen. Do you feel safer?
The law enforcement group Secure Our Smartphones is claiming victory after Google and Microsoft announced they will add a “kill switch” to their mobile operating systems.
Apple’s iOS 8 will help keep out Wi-Fi marketers and snoops, but not totally
A small change in iOS 8 will make privacy advocates happy, although it’s going to be a tough pill to swallow for mobile marketers.
Ransom-taking iPhone hackers busted by Russian authorities
The mystery of the ransom messages from “Oleg Pliss,” and the iDevice locking attack that popped up in Australia and the US last month, appears to have been solved.
Feds swoop in, snatch mobile phone tracking records away from ACLU
After the Feds seized the surveillance records, US Marshals then moved the physical records 320 miles away, meaning the ACLU wouldn’t be able to learn how, and how extensively, police use snooping devices.
Mobile malware, Gameover, CryptoLocker, and SSL/TLS holes – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
How long has mobile malware been around? Is it really game over for Gameover and CryptoLocker? Which cryptographic security libraries need patching? It’ll only take a minute to find out…
SSCC 150 – TrueCrypt, Gameover, CryptoLocker and whither mobile malware? [PODCAST]
This week, Chet and Duck dig into the bafflement of the disappearing TrueCrypt encryption software: did it jump, or was it pushed? They also look at the takedown of Gameover and CryptoLocker, and look into what we can learn from ten years of mobile malware.
From Cabir to Koler – 10 years of Mobile Malware
It’s 10 years since June 2004, when the first mobile malware appeared. We don’t want to *celebrate* this anniversary, you understand, but we thought we’d look back to see what we can learn…
Yes, your smartphone camera can be used to spy on you
A researcher claims to have written an Android app that takes photos and videos using the device camera while the screen is turned off – so you wouldn’t even know the camera was spying on you.