You might want to unplug this not-so-smart robot: researchers found they can watch video streams piped out from its security camera.
Tag Archives: Security threats
Facebook sues data analytics firm OneAudience over malicious SDK
Facebook says OneAudience paid developers to install its social-media-profile-looting SDK into their apps to get marketing data for clients.
Clearview AI loses entire database of faceprint-buying clients to hackers
Time to worry about how well the facial recognition startup protects its 3b+ database of faceprints scraped from our social media accounts?
Ransomware wipes evidence, lets suspected drug dealers walk free
Six alleged drug criminals will go free thanks to a ransomware attack on a small Florida city, it was revealed this month.
Slickwraps data breach earns scorn for all
The breach earned derision from both the hacker and observers after another hacker exploited the company’s vulnerable setup.
Apple’s iOS pasteboard leaks location data to spy apps
A developer has discovered that malicious apps could exploit the pasteboard to work out a user’s location.
LTE vulnerability allows impersonation of other mobile devices
Researchers have found a way to impersonate mobile devices on 4G and 5G mobile networks, and are calling on operators and standards bodies to fix the flaw that caused it.
Switch to Signal for encrypted messaging, EC tells staff
Formerly preferred diplomatic app WhatsApp apparently isn’t up to snuff.
Google stops indexing WhatsApp chats; other search engines still at it
Private chat invites aren’t meant to be unfindable, Facebook says, though a snippet of code eventually shielded them from Google indexing.
KidsGuard stalkerware leaks data on secretly surveilled victims
The company left a server open and unprotected, regurgitating private data slurped from thousands of surveilled people, including children.