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Tag: Wireless


Wireless security

Wireless jammers cast a dark shadow on IoT security

November 6, 2015

Via: Tech Republic

Autumn DePoe-Hughes captured on video a rather bizarre scene at Manchester Fort Shopping Park this past summer. If car doors were locked, they could not be unlocked. The reverse was true as well. And, annoying car alarms defied any attempt […]


Security

Researchers can identify people through walls by using wireless signals

November 3, 2015

Via: Help Net Security

Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have created a device that allows them to “see” what a person is doing and track his or her movement even if that person is located behind a wall, and […]


Vulnerabilities

Seagate wireless hard drives open wide to attack

September 8, 2015

Via: vulnerabilities

Several #seagate #wireless hard-drives have been found to be affected by multiple #vulnerabilities, the #cert Coordination Center of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University warns. The first one allows an attacker to access undocumented #telnet services by using […]


Privacy protection

Google’s new ‘My Account’ lets you tweak privacy and security settings

June 1, 2015

Via: privacy-protection

#google knows a lot about you. I know, I know: DUH. When Google’s not tracking what sites users visit online so it can target-market them, its snoopy Street View cars are driving around and sniffing unsecured #wireless #networks and their passwords, […]


Mobile

Android applications can secretly track location using Wi-Fi data

May 27, 2015

Via: mobile

Many #android #applications collect information on Wi-Fi access points, which researchers contend can be used to figure out where a person is more than 90 percent of the time. The privacy implications of Wi-Fi access point scanning is often overlooked […]