Cheap Android TV Boxes Pose as Phones and Turn Owners’ Broadband Into Proxies
Bitsight says some cheap Android TV boxes have shipped with apps that rewrite their hardware identity to mimic Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, or Vivo phones, then ...
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Researchers Report 84 Flaws in 4G and 5G Cores, Including a Session Hijacking Flaw
An academic study has disclosed a "widespread class" of security vulnerabilities impacting 4G and 5G core networks that, if successfully exploited, could tri...
Finland to disconnect fiber-optic link to Russia as lease expires
Finland stopped power transmissions with Russia at the start of the war in Ukraine, and two related telecom connections will stop at the end of this year, au...
South Korea fines telco giant KT $39 million for customer data breach
South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has fined telecommunications giant KT Corporation KRW 53.979 billion ($39 million) over data ...
We know how to protect our troops from telecom attacks. We’re just not doing it.
The post We know how to protect our troops from telecom attacks. We’re just not doing it.
Cyberattack hits Angola’s largest telco hours before landmark stock debut
Angola’s largest telecommunications operator, Unitel, was hit by a cyberattack that has left millions of people nationwide without voice services, mobile dat...
Fortinet’s new FortiGate platform converges firewall, SASE technologies
Fortinet has expanded its firewall family with new high-speed boxes that, when combined with the vendor’s FortiSASE Outpost software, extend cloud-based SASE...
EU's plan to remove risky telecom suppliers could cost 4 times more than estimated
A report by the GSMA, a global trade body representing the telecom industry, suggests the direct cost of replacing equipment from designated high-risk vendor...
LG Monitors Spotted Installing Adware-Like App on Windows PCs
Connecting certain LG monitors prompts Windows Update to install an LG app without consent, while the software runs at startup and displays McAfee trial adve...
E.U. Orders Google to Open Android Mic, Camera and Screen to Rival AI Assistants
The European Commission on Thursday ordered Google to give rival AI assistants the same reach into Android that Gemini already has: the camera, the microphon...
KDDI Breach Affects Six Japanese ISPs, Exposes 14.2 Email Credentials
Customers of the affected Japanese email services are “strongly advised” to change their email passwords
Bringing Rust to the Pixel Baseband
Posted by Jiacheng Lu, Software Engineer, Google Pixel Team Google is continuously advancing the security of Pixel devices. We have been focusing on hardenin...
Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that actually work
Websites are riddled with timing oracles eager to divulge their innermost secrets. It's time we started listening to them.
Fickle PDFs: exploiting browser rendering discrepancies
Imagine the CEO of a random company receives an email containing a PDF invoice file. In Safari and MacOS Preview, the total price displayed is £399.