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| 13.08.2024 | The GPS Gamble: Navigating the Perils of Spoofing and Jamming | In the digital age, navigation is as crucial as breathing. We rely on GPS for everything—from finding the quickest route to work to guiding aircraft safely through the skies. Yet, this invisible thread that connects us to our destinations i... |
| 12.08.2024 | GPS spoofers ‘hack time’ on commercial airlines | A recent surge in GPS “spoofing”, a form of digital attack that can send commercial airliners off course, has entered an intriguing new dimension, according to cybersecurity researchers: the ability to hack time.
There has been a 400% surge... |
| 14.02.2024 | Whoops: ‘Smart’ Helmet Allowed Real Time Surveillance And Location Tracking Of A Million Customers | Makers of new “smart” technologies keen on reinventing the wheel keep inadvertently sending the same message: sometimes dumber technology is smarter.
The latest case in point: a company named Livall makes “smart” bike helmets for skiers and... |
| 08.02.2024 | Security flaw in a popular smart helmet allowed silent location tracking | The maker of a popular smart ski and bike helmet has fixed a security flaw that allowed the easy real-time location tracking of anyone wearing its helmets.
Livall makes internet-connected helmets that allow groups of skiers or bike riders t... |
| 10.01.2023 | UK Environment Agency website used to send people to fake porn sites | The official website of the UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) had an open redirect that threat actors abused to send visitors to numerous porn sites, including fake OnlyFans adult dating websites.
Redirects a... |
| 11.12.2022 | Как защититься от кражи? Научный подход | Если коротко, преступность в РФ потихоньку растет, а если посмотреть на научные исследования есть вероятность, что будет расти дальше.
Самое распространенное преступление в России это кража. Поэтому нам показалось, будет своевременным опубл... |
| 22.12.2021 | Fisher-Price’s Chatter phone has a simple but problematic Bluetooth bug | As nostalgia goes, the Fisher-Price Chatter phone doesn’t disappoint. The classic retro kids toy was given a modern revamp for the holiday season with the new release for adults which, unlike the original toy designed for kids, can make and... |
| 20.11.2021 | Six Million Sky Broadband Users at Risk of Being Hacked with Admin Password | Here's the List of Potentially Risky Units | Urian B., Tech Times 20 November 2021, 10:11 am
(Photo : Image from Nastya Dulhiier on Unsplash) Six Million Sky Broadband Users at Risk of Being Hacked with Admin Password | Here's the List of Potentially Risky Units
Millions of Sky broadb... |
| 03.09.2021 | How safe are smart EV chargers? | Smart chargers have become a useful resource for electric vehicle (EV) owners, allowing them to remotely monitor and manage the charge state, speed, and timing of their car charger, among many functions. And smart chargers can even be integ... |
| 03.08.2021 | Security flaws found in popular EV chargers | U.K. cybersecurity company Pen Test Partners has identified several vulnerabilities in the APIs of six home electric vehicle charging brands and a large public EV charging network. While the charger manufacturers resolved most of the issues... |
| 10.06.2021 | Cloud, Optimisation and Kindness: Responding to the Pandemic | If you had any doubt about the adverse impact on mental health following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, let me quantify one aspect of it for you – £139 million.
That’s the additional cost of antidepressant (AD) medicines prescribed ... |
| 14.05.2021 | Echelon exposed riders’ account data, thanks to a leaky API | Image Credits: Echelon (stock image)
Peloton wasn’t the only at-home workout giant exposing private account data. Rival exercise giant Echelon also had a leaky API that let virtually anyone access riders’ account information.
Fitness techno... |
| 05.05.2021 | Data leak makes Peloton’s Horrible, No-Good, Really Bad Day even worse | Enlarge
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| 05.05.2021 | Peloton’s leaky API let anyone grab riders’ private account data | Halfway through my Monday afternoon workout last week, I got a message from a security researcher with a screenshot of my Peloton account data.
My Peloton profile is set to private and my friend’s list is deliberately zero, so nobody can vi... |
| 21.04.2021 | Running apps still lag behind on privacy and security | Some of the most popular running apps are still lagging behind on security and privacy. That’s the verdict from security researchers who examined the leading running apps five years apart and found only a few apps had improved — and not by ... |
| 09.02.2021 | Dick Cage Maker Says IoT Chastity Belt Is Safe After New Penetration Test | Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.
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Last year, a hacker locked the internet-connected chastity cages of several men and asked for a ransom af... |
| 11.01.2021 | ‘Your Cock Is Mine Now:’ Hacker Locks Internet-Connected Chastity Cage, Demands Ransom | Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.
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A hacker took control of people's internet-connected chastity cages and demanded a ransom to be paid in B... |
| 26.10.2020 | Could Oil Ship Wakashio Been Hacked Before Mauritius Spill? | Ship's cyber security vulnerabilities, revealed by Cyber Security specialists, Pen Test PartnersPen Test Partners |
| 13.10.2020 | Prominent Stages In The Evolution Of Ransomware | A reflection of a computer hacked by ransomware (Photo by Donat Sorokin\TASS via Getty Images)TASS via Getty Images |
| 08.10.2020 | New Hack Turns ‘Smart’ Male Chastity Device Permanent | In my time at ExtremeTech, I’ve developed a habit of covering some of the worst ideas the IoT collectively has to offer. We’ve discussed personal butthole scanning, self-igniting heating ovens, microwaves with integrated Netflix, bricked sh... |
| 06.10.2020 | Security flaw left ‘smart’ chastity sex toy users at risk of permanent lock-in | Just because almost every gadget or appliance can be connected to the internet, doesn’t mean they should be. Outages can render these “smart” devices useless, and many use weak security that can make them easily hackable.
And as security re... |
| 06.10.2020 | Sex Toy Chastity Hack Could Mean A Very Awkward Emergency Room Visit | This remote sex toy hack could lead to an awkward hospital visitgetty |
| 06.10.2020 | A flaw in a 'smart' chastity sex toy could cause it to lock permanently and trap users, researchers found | Cybersecurity researchers discovered a vulnerability in an internet-connected chastity sex toy that could cause it to be taken over remotely and locked.
Once the sex toy is locked by an outsider, researchers at Pen Test Partners found, ther... |
| 26.09.2020 | When coffee makers are demanding a ransom, you know IoT is screwed | reader comments 359 with 210 posters participating, including story author
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| 03.09.2020 | SonicWall left users exposed to vulnerable API for 14 days | A researcher who found a serious vulnerability in SonicWall's cloud management application programming interface criticised the vendor for leaving the service up and running for a fortnight while it worked out a fix.
Vangelis Stykas of UK-b... |
| 02.09.2020 | A SonicWall cloud bug exposed corporate networks to hackers | A newly discovered bug in a cloud system used to manage SonicWall firewalls could have allowed hackers to break into thousands of corporate networks.
Enterprise firewalls and virtual private network appliances are vital gatekeepers tasked w... |
| 09.07.2020 | Smartwatch hack could trick patients to ‘take pills’ with spoofed alerts | Security researchers say a smartwatch, popular with the elderly and dementia patients, could have been tricked into letting an attacker easily take control of the device.
These watches are designed to help patients easily call their carers ... |
| 18.12.2019 | Cloud flaws expose millions of child-tracking smartwatches | Parents buy their children GPS-enabled smartwatches to keep track of them, but security flaws mean they’re not the only ones who can.
This year alone, researchers have found several vulnerabilities in a number of child-tracking smartwatches... |
| 10.12.2019 | Is your startup protected against insider threats? | We’ve talked about securing your startup, the need to understand phishing risks and how not to handle a data breach. But we haven’t yet discussed one of the more damaging threats that all businesses large and small face: the insider threat.... |
| 11.08.2019 | Group Dating App 3Fun Was Vulnerable To Leaking User Data, Report Finds | Athena Chan, Tech Times 11 August 2019, 11:08 am
Group dating app 3Fun was found to be lacking in security that jeopardized the private information of their users.
The issue was immediately resolved by the team, but it could have been a maj... |
| 11.07.2019 | ‘World’s first Bluetooth hair straighteners’ can be easily hacked | Here’s a thing that should have never been a thing: Bluetooth-connected hair straighteners.
Glamoriser, a U.K. firm that bills itself as the maker of the “world’s first Bluetooth hair straighteners,” allows users to link the device to an ap... |
| 10.05.2019 | ‘Unhackable’ encrypted flash drive eyeDisk is, as it happens, hackable | In security, nothing is “unhackable.” When it’s claimed, security researchers see nothing more than a challenge.
Enter the latest findings from Pen Test Partners, a U.K.-based cybersecurity firm. Their latest project was ripping apart the “... |
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| 01.05.2019 | UK plans new law aimed at improving Internet of Things security | The U.K. government is proposing new legislation aimed at improving security of Internet of Things devices.
Digital minister Margot James MP revealed the draft law on Wednesday as part of the government’s efforts to protect from cyberattack... |
| 29.03.2019 | DIGIT Tech News Roundup – 29th March 2019 | DIGIT’s Top Trending Stories More than One Million Businesses Still to Register for Making Tax Digital
Only a fraction of UK businesses mandated to join Making Tax Digital in April have registered for it, according to a Freedom of Informati... |
| 07.03.2019 | Car alarms with security flaws put 3 million vehicles at risk of hijack | Two popular car alarm systems have fixed security vulnerabilities that allowed researchers to remotely track, hijack and take control of vehicles with the alarms installed.
The systems, built by Russian alarm maker Pandora and California-ba... |
| 04.03.2019 | Outdoor Tech’s Chips ski helmet speakers are a hot mess of security flaws | Sometimes the “smartest” gadgets come with the shoddiest security.
Alan Monie, a security researcher at U.K. cybersecurity firm Pen Test Partners, bought and tested a pair of Chips 2.0 wireless speakers, built by California-based Outdoor Te... |
| 02.01.2019 | Hackers hijack thousands of Chromecasts to warn of latest security bug | Hackers have hijacked thousands of exposed Chromecast streaming devices to warn users of the latest security flaw to affect the device. But other security researchers say that the bug — if left unfixed — could be used for more disruptive at... |
| 20.11.2018 | Kid Tracking 'Smart' Watches, Like Most IOT Devices, Prove Not So Smart, Easy To Hack | We’ve long noted how the painful lack of security and privacy standards in the internet of (quite broken) things is also a problem in the world of connected toys. Like IOT vendors, toy makers were so eager to make money, they left even basi... |
| 30.08.2018 | John McAfee’s ‘unhackable’ Bitfi wallet got hacked — again | If the security community could tell you just one thing, it’s that “nothing is unhackable.” Except John McAfee’s cryptocurrency wallet, which was only unhackable until it wasn’t — twice.
Security researchers have now developed a second atta... |
| 07.03.2018 | UK Government Releases Smart Device Security Guidelines | The government estimates that every household in the UK owns at least 10 internet-connected devices, that figure is expected to rise to 15 by 2020. With that in mind the central proposal of Secure by Design report is a draft Code of Practic... |
| 27.10.2017 | Assessing the threat the Reaper botnet poses to the Internet—what we know now | Johnny Ashburn reader comments 53 with 37 posters participating
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| 24.10.2017 | New IoT BotNet Threatens Massive Disruption | In 2016 an IoT worm named Mirai made parts of the Internet accessible by targeting a wide range of devices which used the default passwords and login details set by the manufacturer – which in practice meant most of them.
The resulting Dist... |
| 05.10.2017 | Sex Toys Are Just As Poorly-Secured As The Rest Of The Internet of Broken Things | At this point we’ve pretty well documented how the “internet of things” is a privacy and security dumpster fire. Whether it’s tea kettles that expose your WiFi credentials or smart fridges that leak your Gmail password, companies were so bu... |
| 03.10.2017 | “NSFW” doesn’t begin to describe Bluetooth security in sex toys | Enlarge
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| 06.04.2017 | Internet-connected vibrator with built-in webcam fails penetration testing | reader comments 21 with 20 posters participating, including story author
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| 17.01.2017 | 9 Issues Make Samsung SmartCam Vulnerable To Hackers, Security Experts Say | Maricris Francisco, Tech Times 17 January 2017, 05:01 pm
The popular Samsung SmartCam IP cameras have been affected by a security flaw that could make the devices prone to hijacking and be exploited by remote attackers.
The flaw was discove... |
| 04.01.2017 | The Car Hacking Village brings car knowledge to the CES masses | When you think of car hacking, it’s easy to simply think of it as a nefarious activity when in reality it’s just as likely to be the work of a researcher or DIY enthusiast wanting to extend a vehicle’s capabilities and understand its weakne... |
| 02.10.2016 | What makes IoT ransomware a different and more dangerous threat? | Ben Dickson Contributor
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| 09.06.2016 | Mitsubishi Outlander Just The Latest 'Smart' Car That's Trivial To Hack And Control | Yet another vehicle heavily advertised as being “smart” has proven to be notably less secure than its older, dumber counterparts. This week, researchers discovered that flaws in the Mitsubishi Outlander leave the vehicle’s on-board network ... |
| 07.06.2016 | Mitsubishi Outlander hacked, raising car security stakes | Researchers at Pen Test Partners have wirelessly hacked the Mitsubishi Outlander Hybrid SUV, allowing them to take control of the vehicle’s electric charging and even turn off the alarm system.
In a five minute video, security researcher Ke... |
| 07.06.2016 | Your Mitsubishi may be vulnerable to hackers | Mitsubishi owners, beware: One popular model has a "shocking" flaw that can allow hackers to disable its alarms and allow thieves to steal the vehicles.
The problem affects Mitsubishi's Outlander hybrid SUV, a popular model. The f... |
| 20.02.2016 | Smile! Your DVR may email your picture to China | You may look at the DVR as that box that records your TV shows and perhaps even allows you to skip the commercials. But there is more to it than just that. Users can also record video from their home surveillance cameras and replay the clip... |
| 05.02.2016 | IoT Security Concerns Show An Industry Struggling To Keep Up | The growth of the Internet of Things has been predicted over the last few years and has led to a plethora of connected devices. Household devices have led the charge with smart thermostats, refrigerators, and washing machines. We have seen ... |
| 21.01.2016 | Ding-Dong — Your Easily Hacked 'Smart' Doorbell Just Gave Up Your WiFi Credentials | Have we mentioned lately that when it comes to the so-called “internet of things,” security is an afterthought? Whether it’s your automobile, your refrigerator or your tea kettle, so-called “smart” internet of things devices are consistentl... |
| 16.12.2015 | Hello Barbie, hello hackers: accessing personal data will be child’s play | At the top of some children’s Christmas present wish list this year will be the new Hello Barbie doll.
Mattel’s latest doll connects to the internet via Wi-Fi and uses interactive voice response (IVR) to effectively converse with children. ... |
| 23.10.2015 | Easily Hacked Tea Kettle Latest To Highlight Pathetic Internet Of Things 'Security' | We’ve discussed at length that companies rushing to embrace the “Internet of Things” (read: networked devices for those of us not in marketing) tend to have completely forgotten a little something called device security. As a result we’re n... |
| 08.09.2015 | Our insecure Internet of Things is becoming terrifying | Several recent stories in the news have focused on terrifying vulnerabilities in specific pieces of internet-connected technology. These aren’t just the regular “my lawnmower knows my Facebook password!” sort of alarm bells, but specificall... |
| 25.08.2015 | How This Connected Refrigerator Could Put Your Passwords at Risk | August 25, 2015 3 min read This story originally appeared on Fortune Magazine
In yet another example of a manufacturer of a connected product failing to secure said product, Samsung’s connected fridge allows malicious people to steal a cons... |
| 25.08.2015 | Internet Of Not-So-Smart Things: Samsung's Latest Smart Fridge Can Expose Your Gmail Password | The sometimes blisteringly-inane hype surrounding the “Internet of Things” appears to be on a collision course with the sophomoric security standards being employed in the field. As we’ve seen time and time again, companies were so bedazzle... |
| 25.08.2015 | Samsung smart fridge might leak your Gmail credentials | Your smart fridge might be good for storing cold beer, but it definitely isn’t good for storing your Gmail credentials, as those can be easily stolen. During the recent DEF CON hacking conference, the vulnerability was unveiled at the IoT h... |
| 05.03.2015 | How Blackphone Turned A Security Fail Into A Win | Last year, privacy-focused Blackphone got a dubious distinction: It became known as the locked-down phone that supposedly got hacked in just 5 minutes.
Things have changed. Now, it’s a whole mobile product line geared for companies (and per... |
| 19.02.2015 | Samsung lied -- its smart TV is indeed spying on you and it is doing nothing to stop that | About 70 years ago, English novelist George Orwell wrote 1984, a controversial novel which visioned of a fictional dystopian place called Oceania where people had no real privacy. As Orwell described, residents of Oceania had two-way telesc... |
| 19.02.2015 | Samsung’s Smart TVs don’t just spy, they transmit your speech in unencrypted plaintext | Update: The TV that David Lodge tested is a 2.5 year-old UE46ES8000, not the latest model. Samsung is now saying that its latest televisions are encrypted and that it’s just older devices that lack the feature. Exactly what qualifies as an ... |
| - | В интернете продают «защиту от 5G» за $350. Это — обычные флешки на 128 МБ | В интернете продают «защиту от 5G» за $350. Это — обычные флешки на 128 МБ
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