The man became a suspect because location data from his Android phone was swept up in a surveillance dragnet called a geofence warrant.
Tag Archives: Wi-fi
Why ‘free’ Wi-Fi isn’t really free
How much data is too much to give away to get online while you’re waiting at the train station? In the airport? A shopping mall?
How the Linux kernel balances the risks of public bug disclosure
A serious Wi-Fi flaw shows how Linux handles security in plain sight.
Wi-Fi signals let researchers ID people through walls from their gait
Police could set up transceivers outside a building and compare spectrograms of suspects walking vs. crime scene footage.
Hacked devices can be turned into acoustic weapons
Security researcher Matt Wixey found that many gadgets aren’t protected from being turned into hearing-damaging weapons. Or melting.
Hacking 4G hotspots – when did you last update?
Your 4G hotspot might seem very basic and low risk compared to your phone, but you need to keep it patched just as carefully!
Latest Android patches fix critical ‘QualPwn’ Wi-Fi flaws
The August 2019 security bulletin is out – and two of the critical flaws could allow an attacker to compromise the Android system kernel.
Researchers hide data in music – and human ears can’t detect it
It’s now possible to secretly transfer data inside music without turning it into unlistenable mush.
Diabetics are hunting down obsolete insulin pumps with a security flaw
The flaw makes it possible to overwrite the devices’ programming and insert an algorithm that turns them into artificial pancreases.
Dragonblood: Data-leaking flaw in WPA3 Wi-Fi authentication
Researchers have discovered several holes in a new security protocol for wireless networks.