By Bill Toulas A bug in Google Home smart speaker allowed installing a backdoor account that could be used to control it remotely and to turn it into a snooping device by accessing the microphone feed. Researcher Matt Kunze discovered the issue and received $107,500 for responsibly reporting it to Google last year. Earlier thisContinue reading “Google Home speakers allowed hackers to snoop on conversations”
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Hackers could have full access to everything on the phones of WhatsApp users
This was possible through a security issue disclosed by WhatsApp itself (https://www.whatsapp.com/security/advisories/2022/) last week. All a hacker had to do to control your phone was send you a malicious video or start a video call with you on WhatsApp. You are probably thinking “Yeah, but if I updated WhatsApp to the latest version, I amContinue reading “Hackers could have full access to everything on the phones of WhatsApp users”
110 Articles Affirm America’s Computerized Voting System Is Online, Compromised, and Vulnerable To Hackers: Documented, Linked, and Quoted
KanekoaTheGreat March 29 2022 “Forty-three percent of American voters use voting machines that researchers have found have serious security flaws including backdoors. These companies are accountable to no one. They won’t answer basic questions about their cyber security practices and the biggest companies won’t answer any questions at all. Five states have no paper trailContinue reading “110 Articles Affirm America’s Computerized Voting System Is Online, Compromised, and Vulnerable To Hackers: Documented, Linked, and Quoted”