Common Bluetooth chip flaw strikes Cisco and Aruba wi-fi gear
Bluetooth Low Energy expands the attack surface.
Bluetooth Low Energy expands the attack surface.
Any device with Bluetooth could be vulnerable to the nasty BlueBorne bugs.
Retailers should take smart toys with known vulnerabilities off shelfs, demands UK consumer group.
Google's Project Zero gives you one more reason to update to iOS 11.
Some accelerometers don't protect against acoustics that forge acceleration signals.
Anyone can connect to a CloudPets toy as long as they're in Bluetooth range.
Germany has halted the s a popular smart toy an illegal surveillance device.
Google is splitting its Gmail login process across two pages in preparation to introduce “new authentication solutions”.
A new feature in Android keeps your passcode protected smartphone unlocked when it’s on your body — a move that reduces the hassle of typing a passcode but also leaves devices exposed to muggers.
Keeping your passwords safe is hard work--and keeping them complex enough that others won't figure them out but you can still remember them is equally difficult. Arkami's solution? The myIDkey (funding through March 22), a biometrically secure Bluetooth/USB flash drive and password manager, which lets you carry all your access codes, account numbers, and other data with you on a device that is compact enough to affix to your keyring.
Cassandra Khaw | 19 Mar | Read more
A gadget has been created to help motorists communicate their angst toward other drivers without using the ubiquitous hand gesture. But you might want to watch what you say because you never know who is in the other car.
Christina DesMarais | 23 Oct | Read more
A 26 year-old German man has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for rigging retail card payment consoles to transmit captured card details and PINs over Bluetooth.
Patch Tuesday has arrived. As expected, Microsoft released a relatively <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms11-jul.mspx">small number of patches for July</a>, but that is no reason for IT admins to let their guard down--especially when one of the patches is a <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/235218/critical_update_for_windows_7_coming_tuesday.html">Critical update for Windows 7</a> and Windows Vista.
Tony Bradley | 13 Jul | Read more
If you have an HTC smartphone running Windows Mobile 6 or Windows Mobile 6.1, you may want to think twice before connecting to an untrusted device using Bluetooth. A vulnerability in an HTC driver installed on these phones can allow an attacker to access any file on the phone or upload malicious code using Bluetooth, a Spanish security researcher warned Tuesday.
Sumner Lemon | 14 Jul | Read more