November 26, 2019

Parents say creep hacked their baby monitor to tell toddler they ‘love’ her

The Taococo FREDI baby monitor has repeatedly been criticized for being easy to hack.

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October 07, 2019

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.

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September 05, 2019

Author of record-setting IoT botnets pleads guilty

He kept working on new botnets (and swatting a co-conspirator-cum-competitor) while indicted and on supervised release.

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August 30, 2019

Botnet targets set-top boxes using Android OS

Production systems aren't supposed to have the ADB turned on, but some set-top boxes do.

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August 21, 2019

Google patches 8 security holes in Nest cameras

The list of vulnerabilities recently discovered by researchers relate to one model, the Nest Cam IQ Indoor camera.

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August 01, 2019

Researchers hack camera in fake video attack

Tampering with surveillance cameras is a common activity for Hollywood heroes and criminals alike. Now, researchers have shown how they can do it in real life.

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July 31, 2019

Cyberattacks on connected cars could gridlock entire cities

It would require taking over and stranding 20% of a city's cars to freeze traffic, and only 10% to impede ambulances, physicists calculate.

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July 18, 2019

Hacked Bluetooth hair straighteners are too hot to handle

The Glamoriser Smart Bluetooth straightener offers up yet another example of how not to add a risky product to the Internet of Things (IoT).

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July 04, 2019

Why are they “smart” locks if more money buys you less security?

Smart locks are cool and useful - but they are also a great reminder that cybersecurity is all about value, not cost.

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