How to Stop Google From Tracking Your Location
If, like most people, you thought Google stopped tracking your location once you turned off Location History in your account settings, you […]
Tag: Security
Hacked Water Heaters Could Trigger Mass Blackouts Someday
When the cybersecurity industry warns about the nightmare of hackers causing blackouts, the scenario they describe typically entails an elite team of […]
Fax Machines Are Still Everywhere, and Wildly Insecure
It’s tempting to think of fax machines as a relic, every bit as relevant as an eight-track tape. But fields like health […]
To Identify a Hacker, Treat Them Like a Burglar
Imagine someone robs your house. The savvy culprit didn’t leave behind fingerprints, shoe prints, or any other discrete, identifying details. Still, police […]
A Clever Android Hack Takes Advantage of Sloppy Storage
An Android app has two choices for where to put its data on a device: internal storage, where it’s safe and snug, […]
Hackers Turned an Amazon Echo Into a Spy Bug
Since smart speakers like the Amazon Echo first began to appear in homes across the world, the security community has come to […]
Invisible Mouse Clicks Let Hackers Burrow Deep into MacOS
One way operating system developers try to protect a computers’s secrets from probing hackers is with an appeal to the human at […]
Police Departments Need to Stop Posting Mugshots on Twitter
A week ago, the Berkeley, California, police department tweeted out the mugshots, names, and ages of people arrested during the No to […]
Police Bodycams Can Be Hacked to Doctor Footage
As they proliferate, police body cameras have courted controversy because of the contentious nature of the footage they capture and questions about […]
The FCC’s Fake DDoS Attack, WannaCry Hits an Apple Supplier, and More Security News This Week
It’s Black Hat and DefCon conference time again, when the world’s top security researchers descend on the den of iniquity that is […]