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EU adopts Cyber Resilience Act to secure connected products

The EU Council has adopted the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), a new law that aims to make consumer products with digital components safe(r) to use. CRA requirements The CRA …

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UK enacts IoT cybersecurity law

The Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) Act has come into effect today, requiring manufacturers of consumer-grade IoT products sold in the UK to stop …

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LG smart TVs may be taken over by remote attackers

Bitdefender researchers have uncovered four vulnerabilities in webOS, the operating system running on LG smart TVs, which may offer attackers unrestricted (root) access to the …

Android
Backdoored Android phones, TVs used for ad fraud – and worse!

A key monetization mechanism of a sophisticated series of cybercriminal operations involving backdoored off-brand mobile and CTV Android devices has been disrupted, Human …

If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable book
Introducing the book: If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable

All our devices and gadgets are going online, just like our computers did. But once we’ve successfully connected our devices to the internet, do we have any hope of keeping …

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Cybersecurity threats and cybercrime trends of 2020

Bitdefender released a report revealing top cybersecurity threats, frequency of threats and cybercrime trends of 2020. “Our 2020 findings depict consumers under constant …

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Should you trust your smart TV or streaming device?

“Smart” devices might be handy and offer higher quality services, but users should be aware that everything comes with a price. And we’re not talking here …

numbers
Adiantum: A new encryption scheme for low-end Android devices

Google has created an alternative disk and file encryption mode for low-end Android devices that don’t have enough computation power to use the Advanced Encryption …

Vizio Smart TV
Five smart TVs tested for security, privacy issues

As more and more smart TVs are sold worldwide, consumers should be aware of the risks associated with this technology. Consumer Union, a US-based nonprofit organization …

Vizio Smart TV
Vizio smart TVs spied on millions of users without their consent

American company Vizio has decided to settle charges that it installed software on its smart TVs that collected viewing data of some 11 million users without their knowledge …

Ransomware targets Android smart TVs

If you own a Sharp and Philips smart TV running the Android TV OS, you should know that it could be hit by FLocker, a device-locking ransomware that targets both …

mobile
Apple updates its products, fixes iMessages zero-day

On Monday Apple has pushed out updates for its many products: iOS, OS X, OS X Server, Safari, watchOS, tvOS, and Xcode. Of these, the most eagerly awaited was that for iOS, as …

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