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Hacking smartphones via voice commands hidden in YouTube videos

12

Jul

2016

A group of researchers from Georgetown University and UC Berkeley have demonstrated how voice commands hidden in YouTube videos can be used by malicious attackers to compromise smartphones. In order for the attack to work, the target smartphones have to have Apple Siri or Google Now – the intelligent personal assistant software that uses a […]

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Researchers tout new anonymity network

12

Jul

2016

Researchers have developed a network architecture they claim is a dramatically more efficient way for users to interact anonymously. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Swiss École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne collaborated on the project, known as “Riffle networking.”

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Exfiltrating data from air-gapped computers by modulating fan speed

27

Jun

2016

For the last few years, researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have been testing up new ways to exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers: via mobile phones, using radio frequencies (“AirHopper”); using heat (“BitWhisper”), using rogue software (“GSMem”) that modulates and transmits electromagnetic signals at cellular frequencies. The latest version of the data-exfiltration attack against […]

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