AI, IoT, & Mobile Security – The Week’s Best News – 2021.03.16
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 (VICE, Mar 16 2021) A gaping flaw in SMS lets hackers take over phone numbers in minutes by simply paying a company to reroute text messages. Malware Operator Employs New Trick to […]
AI, IoT, & Mobile Security – The Week’s Best News – 2021.03.09
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security Deepfake videos of Tom Cruise went viral…to boost awareness. (NBC News, Mar 05 2021) The creator of a series of deepfake Tom Cruise videos that garnered more than 11 million views on TikTok said he never wanted to trick people. […]
AI, IoT, & Mobile Security – The Week’s Best News – 2021.03.02
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security US ‘unprepared’ to defend against new AI threats, report finds (The Hill, Mar 01 2021) The federal government is “unprepared” to defend the nation against new threats posed by the increased adoption of artificial intelligence technologies, according to a report […]
AI, IoT, & Mobile Security – The Week’s Best News – 2021.02.23
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security Apple Offers Its Closest Look Yet at iOS and MacOS Security (Wired, Feb 18 2021) In its latest Platform Security Guide, Cupertino raised the curtain on the critical features that protect against hackers. Apple Is Going to Make It Harder […]
AI, IoT, & Mobile Security – The Week’s Best News – 2021.02.16
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security Mobile Health Apps Found to Expose Records of Millions of Users (SecurityWeek, Feb 11 2021) An analysis of 30 popular mobile health (mHealth) applications has revealed that all of them expose the full patient records of millions of people. With […]
AI, IoT, & Mobile Security – The Week’s Best News – 2021.02.09
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security Google considering an iOS-style anti-tracking feature for Android (Ars Technica, Feb 05 2021) Android could get tracking controls after “seeking” from ad companies. NoxPlayer Android Emulator Supply-Chain Attack (Schneier on Security, Feb 08 2021) “It seems to be the season […]
AI, IoT, & Mobile Security – The Week’s Best News – 2021.02.02
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security UScellular Breach Allowed Hackers to Port Customer Phone Numbers (SecurityWeek, Jan 29 2021) Chicago-based wireless carrier UScellular started informing customers last week that their personal information may have been accessed and their phone numbers ported as a result of a […]
AI, IoT, & Mobile Security – The Week’s Best News – 2021.01.26
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security TikTok Bug Gave Access to Contacts’ Profile Details (Infosecurity Magazine, Jan 26 2021) Check Point reveals now-fixed vulnerability Bugs in Signal, other video chat apps allowed attackers to listen in on users (Help Net Security, Jan 21 2021) Bugs in […]
AI, IoT, & Mobile Security – The Week’s Best News – 2021.01.19
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security WhatsApp Delays Data Sharing Change After Backlash (SecurityWeek, Jan 18 2021) WhatsApp on Friday postponed a data-sharing change as users concerned about privacy fled the Facebook-owned messaging service and flocked to rivals Telegram and Signal. TikTok Harvested MAC Addresses By […]
AI, IoT, & Mobile Security – The Week’s Best News – 2021.01.12
A Review of the Best News of the Week on AI, IoT, & Mobile Security WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data With Facebook for Years (Wired, Jan 08 2021) A pop-up notification has alerted the messaging app’s users to a practice that’s been in place since 2016. Ubiquiti: Change Your Password, Enable 2FA (Krebs on Security, […]