Called Spectra, this attack works against “combo chips,” specialized chips that handle multiple types of radio wave-based wireless communications, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LTE, and others. “Spectra, a new vulnerability class, relies on the fact that transmissions happen in the same spectrum, and wireless chips need to arbitrate the channel access,” the research team said Read more about New Spectra attack breaks the separation between Wi-Fi and Bluetooth[…]

Community platform Nextdoor is courting police across the country, creating concerns among civil rights and privacy advocates who worry about possible conflicts of interest, over-reporting of crime, and the platform’s record of racial profiling, per a Thursday report by CityLab. That effort included an all-expenses-paid meeting in San Francisco with members of Nextdoor’s Public Agencies Read more about Nextdoor Building Relationships With Law Enforcement whilst racially profiling[…]

Dubbed NXNSAttack, the flaw [PDF] can be abused to pull off a classic amplification attack: you send a small amount of specially crafted data to a DNS server, which responds by sending a lot of data to a victim’s server. If you have an army of hacked PCs or devices – a botnet – at Read more about DNS this week stands for Drowning Needed Services: Design flaw in name server system can be exploited to flood machines offline[…]

A technician at ADT remotely accessed hundreds of customers’ CCTV cameras to spy on people in their own homes, the burglar-alarm biz has admitted. At least one of the victims was a teenage girl, and another a young mother, according to court filings. Last month, an ADT customer in Dallas, Texas, spotted and reported an Read more about Rogue ADT tech spied on hundreds of customers in their homes via CCTV – teen girls, young mums repeatedly watched[…]

EasyJet has admitted that a “highly sophisticated cyber-attack” has affected approximately nine million customers. It said email addresses and travel details had been stolen and that 2,208 customers had also had their credit and debit card details “accessed”. The firm has informed the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office while it investigates the breach. EasyJet first became Read more about EasyJet admits data of nine million hacked[…]

A computer programmer applying for unemployment on Arkansas’s Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program discovered a vulnerability in the system that exposed the Social Security numbers, bank account and routing numbers and other sensitive information of some 30,000 applicants. Anyone with basic computer knowledge could have accessed personal information for malicious purposes. Alarmed, the computer programmer called Read more about Social Security numbers, banking information left unprotected on Arkansas Unemployement Assistance website[…]

an announcement from Samsung and Korean provider SK Telecom that the world’s first 5G smartphone complete with a quantum random number generator (QRNG) is due to launch next week. The current Samsung Galaxy flagship S20 series all come with a new secure element security solution including a dedicated security chip that can prevent hackers from Read more about Samsung Surprise As World’s First Smartphone With Quantum Hardware Technology Launches May 22[…]