A duo of researchers stumbled across a series of vulnerabilities in literally hundreds of GPS services that leave sensitive GPS tracking data open to hackers. Dubbed “Trackmageddon” by the researchers, the vulnerabilities span a range of weaknesses that...
There’s a constant tug of war playing out on the national stage. On one side, privacy advocates are pushing for greater autonomy for end users, and hard limits to the types of searches that law enforcement agencies are allowed to conduct. On the other side are...
Remember the KRACK WiFi (WPA2) vulnerability, discovered by Mathy Vanhoef? Dr. Vanhoef was a speaker at BlackHat USA 2017. It turns out that his discovery was a catalyst for action. Recently, the WiFi Alliance, which is the industry’s standards organization,...
What’s an HDD manufacturer to do when faced with competition by faster, more efficient SSD drives? Go big, and go faster. At least that’s the strategy that both Seagate and Western Digital are adopting. SSDs tend to get prohibitively expensive as their...
Recently, a group of investors wrote an open letter to Apple, urging the company to do more in regards to offering better and more robust parental controls on the devices the company makes. Although the group of investors control some $2 billion in Apple stock, this...
