Malicious code in akamaijs-sensorv1 (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector 9524ba80283c25fe34b7a9630fc0f65ac8cf112e33a50aa4cbaac19239fcc267 The package advertises itself as an Akamai Bot Manager sensor generator, but its main entry conceals its real behavior. index.js contains a comment composed of invisible Unicode tag / variation-selector code...

Stealing Browsing History Using Your Phone's Ambient Light Sensor

There has been a flurry of research into using the various sensors on your phone to steal data in surprising ways. Here's another: using the phone's ambient light sensor to detect what's on the screen. It's a proof of concept, but the paper's general conclusions are correct: There is a lesson her...