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MAKERphone 2: A DIY 4G phone with plug-in camera, speaker and prototyping board
CircuitMess, a Croatian electronics kit maker, is selling MAKERphone 2.0, a build-it-yourself 4G phone on Kickstarter that buyers program in MicroPython or Arduino C++ and …
Your security program knows about the firewall, but does it know about the elevator?
By early August, attackers had hit water systems in at least seven U.S. states. The FBI and EPA said the intruders remotely accessed internet-facing programmable logic …
A cheap fake base station can still track 5G subscribers
Researchers from the i2CAT Foundation, the University of Murcia, and NEC Laboratories Europe built a low-cost tool called 5G-Shark that lures a target phone onto a fake base …
Apple is building photo verification for the people who need it most
Apple has introduced Apple Reference Image, an opt-in feature designed to verify the authenticity of photos taken with iPhone 18 Pro models. Apple Reference Image provides …
A new open standard locks AI weights to approved hardware
OPAQUE, a confidential computing company that runs AI workloads inside hardware-isolated environments so operators cannot inspect them, released an open standard that lets AI …
Hackers exploit RouterOS flaws to hijack MikroTik devices without authentication
Attackers are exploiting a chain of RouterOS vulnerabilities to hijack MikroTik devices with SSH open to the internet, CERT Polska found. CERT Polska, Poland’s national …
AI will not fix a governance problem in your camera estate
Camera systems often outlive the companies that install them. In this Help Net Security interview, Rob Janssens, EMEA Cyber Security Director at Hikvision Europe, discusses …
Windows 11’s strongest security defenses can be bypassed without a screwdriver
Researchers from the University of Birmingham and Durham University have found a way to knock down some of the toughest protections in Windows 11 without physically opening or …
US fuel gauge exposure fell by more than half in three months
Every month for the better part of a year, about 4,800 US internet addresses answered a query in the protocol that fuel tank gauges speak. In June the number was 2,354. The …
15 TP-Link Omada vulnerabilities let attackers hijack routers and intercept camera traffic
TP-Link prints the serial number of an Omada router on its packaging and on a label attached to the device. Those numbers run in sequence, and feeding a guessed one to the …
Exposed BMCs hand out password hashes before login
An attacker who reaches UDP port 623 on a server’s baseboard management controller can ask it for a password hash and receive one before logging in. The exchange is part …
Nobody was checking the drives that encrypt your laptop
A drive ships with a label promising hardware encryption. You plug it in, set a password, and trust the chip inside to handle the rest. Millions of laptops and workstations …
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