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Research suggests that hackers can easily circumvent Endpoint Detection and Response systems, the malware detecting and blocking solutions on which organizations...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | September 6, 2022
"These services, never before available, promise the potential for expanding reach to remote and rural areas and facilitating higher quality broadband services...Ars Technica From ACM News | July 8, 2022
Researchers have discovered at least 80 routers in North America and Europe have been infected by a remote access Trojan as part of a larger hacking campaign.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | July 7, 2022
Security researchers have found that the supposedly hard-to-counterfeit digital driver's licenses in use in New South Wales, Australia, actually can be altered...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | May 25, 2022
Sultan Qasim Khan at U.K.-based security firm NCC Group devised an exploit for unlocking Teslas and countless other devices.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | May 23, 2022
Researchers analyzed the top 100,000 websites and found a significant number record some or all of visitors' typewritten data.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | May 16, 2022
Apple, Google, and Microsoft are launching a "joint effort" to "expand support for a common password-less sign-in standard created by the FIDO Alliance and the...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | May 9, 2022
Researchers at the U.K.’s University of Oxford found that iOS apps can still track users without explicit permission.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | April 25, 2022
Researchers in the Shadytel telecommunications and embedded device hacking group used a decommissioned Canadian satellite to broadcast a livestream to the Northern...Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | April 6, 2022
A researcher found that Yandex, known as "Russia's Google," embedded code in apps for mobile devices that allows data to be sent to servers in Russia.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | April 4, 2022
Polkit, a system-wide privilege manager for Unix-like operating systems, contains a 12-year-old memory-corruption vulnerability.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | January 31, 2022
Researchers at China's Qihoo 360 reported that the EWDoor malware has infected the networking devices of thousands of AT&T Internet customers in the U.S.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | December 9, 2021
Chinese video game publisher Tencent has added a facial recognition system to more than 60 of its China-specific smartphone games.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | July 16, 2021
McAfee mobile researchers have discovered malware hidden in eight Google Play apps that steals users' text messages and makes unauthorized purchases.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | April 27, 2021
A researcher says the Android operating system transmits about 20 times more information from smartphone handsets to Google than iOS sends to Apple.
Ars Technica From ACM TechNews | March 31, 2021