Robot Vacuums Suck Up Sensitive Audio in ‘LidarPhone’ Hack

Researchers have uncovered a new attack that lets bad actors snoop in on homeowners’ private conversations – through their robot vacuums. The vacuums, which utilize smart sensors in order to autonomously operate, have gained traction over the past few years. The attack, called “LidarPhone” by...

Logic Flaw Vulnerability in National College Expert Sharing Network

The National University Expert Sharing Network is a national university procurement expert sharing platform, including Fudan University, Peking University has Tsinghua University and many other universities. There is a logic flaw vulnerability in the National University Expert Sharing Network,...

Satellite Phone Encryption Calls Can be Cracked in Fractions of a Second

Security researchers have discovered a new method to decrypt satellite phone communications encrypted with the GMR-2 cipher in "real time" -- that too in mere fractions of a second in some cases. The new attack method has been discovered by two Chinese security researchers and is based on previou...

China Builds World's Fastest Supercomputer

China has developed a new supercomputer known as Tianhe-2 which is twice as fast as US and Japanese systems has been measured at speeds of 30.65 petaflops or 74 percent faster than the current holder of the world's-fastest-supercomputer title. Titan, the U.S. Department of Energy's fastest...