QA-HFL: Quality-Aware Hierarchical Federated Learning for Resource-Constrained Mobile Devices with Heterogeneous Image Quality

This paper introduces QA-HFL, a quality-aware hierarchical federated learning framework that efficiently handles heterogeneous image quality across resource-constrained mobile devices. Our approach trains specialized local models for different image quality levels and aggregates their features...

Chinese Android Phones Shipped with Fake WhatsApp, Telegram Apps Targeting Crypto Users

Cheap Android smartphones manufactured by Chinese companies have been observed pre-installed with trojanized apps masquerading as WhatsApp and Telegram that contain cryptocurrency clipper functionality as part of a campaign since June 2024. While using malware-laced apps to steal financial...

CVE-2024-50928

Insecure permissions in Silicon Labs SiLabs Z-Wave Series 700 and 800 v7.21.1 allow attackers to change the wakeup interval of end devices in controller memory, disrupting the device's communications with the controller...

CVE-2023-51395 Z-Wave S0 Decryption Vulnerability in End Devices

The vulnerability described by CVE-2023-0972 has been additionally discovered in Silicon Labs Z-Wave end devices. This vulnerability may allow an unauthenticated attacker within Z-Wave range to overflow a stack buffer, leading to arbitrary code execution...

CVE-2023-51395 Z-Wave S0 Decryption Vulnerability in End Devices

The vulnerability described by CVE-2023-0972 has been additionally discovered in Silicon Labs Z-Wave end devices. This vulnerability may allow an unauthenticated attacker within Z-Wave range to overflow a stack buffer, leading to arbitrary code execution...

CVE-2023-51395

CVE-2023-51395 refers to Silicon Labs Z-Wave end devices (root from CVE-2023-0972). The vulnerability involves a stack buffer overflow in Z-Wave processing that an unauthenticated attacker within Z-Wave range can trigger, potentially causing arbitrary code execution. Documented impact is high (CV...

Google Boosts Encryption For Low-End Android Devices

Google introduced a new storage encryption solution that it hopes will expand security efforts across its full spectrum of Android-powered devices – including low-end devices that typically can’t support encryption. The new encryption offering, Adiantum, aims to solve a big issue that has plagued...

Google Created Faster Storage Encryption for All Low-End Devices

Google has launched a new encryption algorithm that has been built specifically to run on mobile phones and smart IoT devices that don't have the specialized hardware to use current encryption methods to encrypt locally stored data efficiently. Encryption has already become an integral part of ou...

Samsung Eyeing Iris Recognition for New Phones

Samsung announced this week that in order to bolster security, it plans to incorporate biometric sensors such as eye scanners into more of its products – even its low-end devices – in the near future. The move would bring an added layer of security to its devices and could wind up tying into in t...